"A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread."

-- Leonardo Sciascia

#Regret Quotes #Nice Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.”

Source : "1999: ABC's Walters Pressed Lewinsky on Affairs with Married Men". www.newsbusters.org. May 9, 2008.
“Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.”
“For me, it's a responsibility to represent my family every time I step foot in the ring. When I came into this WWE business, there was a bar set for me. My goal is to push it as high as I can to make my family's legacy even stronger. To add to the history that's already been created. So for me, it's a huge challenge that I'm willing to fight for every single day.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.”
“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.”
“To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.”

Source : Speech of CIA Director George Tenet at Georgetown University, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”

Source : George Chapman, Hesiod, Musaeus (Grammaticus.), Juvenal (1858). “Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams”, p.135
“Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.”

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