"Romance is mush, stifling those who strive."

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Source : Song: Lush Life

Billy Strayhorn

#Romance Quotes #Strive Quotes #Stifling Quotes

“So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.”
“It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.”
“For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .”
“Such crimes has superstition caused.”
“You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.”
“When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?”
“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

Source : Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

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