"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."

-- Francesca Annis

#Technology Quotes #Islands Quotes #Zanzibar Quotes

“When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 20, 2010
“One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.”
“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
“What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?”
“An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.”

Source : Susan Orlean (2010). “The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up”, p.13, Random House
“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”

Source : Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.239, Univ of California Press
“I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.”

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