"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."

-- Xunzi

#Life And Love Quotes #Two Quotes #Attempting Quotes

“If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.”
“Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.”
“There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.”
“Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.17, Vintage
“I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.”

Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.201, Routledge
“Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.”
“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.”

Source : Chuck Thompson (2010). “To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism”, p.15, Macmillan

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