"It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart."

-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Heart Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.”

Source : "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.
“Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.”
“The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.”
“I'm not interested in fame at all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.”
“Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.”
“I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.”
“Jewish women are very exciting, as exciting sexually as any other group. Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a Jewish girl would be to have three and a half years of foreplay. Of course, most girls in every group are reserved about getting down to it. They don't usually do it right away. But once they do it, women are bananas. They don't wanna do it, you can't make them do it, there's no way they'll do it - but once they do it, they don't let you alone.”

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