"Life is not life at all without delight."

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Coventry Patmore

#Delight Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”
“China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.”
“I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.”
“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.
“The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.”
“I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.”
“Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.”

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