"When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence."

-- Maria Edgeworth

#Horizon Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.”
“While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.”
“But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities”
“[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.”
“Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.”
“If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.”
“In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."”
“We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.”

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