"It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure."

-- Ramakrishna

#Scratches Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.”
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”
“I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldnâ€™t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
“Living in fear is not living at all.”
“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”
“Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.”
“I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.”

Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

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