"Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment."

-- Ilka Chase

#Distance Quotes #Attachment Quotes #May Quotes

“We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.”
“I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.”
“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.”
“The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change”
“When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power of law behind the idea that these are people who cannot change and therefore we must protect them from other people who disagree with them.”
“He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.”
“Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.”

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