"Character is very much a matter of health."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Character Quotes #Matter Quotes

“For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.”
“Sometimes you don't realize how special something is until you lose it. Thats how I feel about Ramadan every year.”
“The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial
“Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.”
“It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and...oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.”
“So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?”
“I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.”
“Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.”

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