"I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one."

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Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

Elizabeth Kostova

#Nasty Quotes #Practicals Quotes

“I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.”

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“A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products.”
“History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.”
“Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.”
“The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.”
“I canâ€™t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.”
“The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after day for her stolen baby to be given back to her. And why do they steal babies from their moms? Well, the dairy industry can't have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them. Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.”
“I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.”

Source : Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.16, Conari Press

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