"No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Forgiveness Quotes #Pedestal Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“In religion and politics peopleâ€™s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
“What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.”
“He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.”
“After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government is in disarray. Ministers have made it clear they have no exit plan, but are determined to make working people pay with a new round of cuts and tax rises.”
“I am what I am, everything I wanna be”
“Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.”
“Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.”

Source : "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.
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