"Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it."

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Source : "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in the chapter 'Schizophrenia, as Predicted', B/O, 1967.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#Stopping Quotes #Witchcraft Quotes #Wells Quotes

“'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way, the culminating point of this answer. I wish to repeat it together with the whole Church to Him, who manifested His love by means of the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, remaining with us 'to the close of the age'”
“The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.”

Source : "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)
“Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.”

Source : "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.
“You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.”
“Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.”
“Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.”
“Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.”
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

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