"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek."

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Samuel Johnson

#Men Quotes #Wife Quotes #Greek Quotes

“There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.124, Penguin
“I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”
“Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.”
“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source : "Testimony to the Inquisition". Translation by Charles Yriarte, July 18, 1573.
“The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.”
“We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.”
“Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.”

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