"The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life."

-- Robert Morrison MacIver

#Success Quotes #Stress Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“But we're lost in a world of appearances now.”
“When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.”
“In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.”
“But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.”
“TRUCE, n. Friendship.”
“Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.”
“If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.”
“I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.”

Source : Rory Stewart (2009). “The Places In Between”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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