"It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss."

-- Bryce Courtenay

#Heart Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Games Quotes

“Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.”
“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”
“I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.”
“The point is that if you accept that there is only one energy in all things, then on an energy level there is no giving or receiving - just energy moving around within itself. It's only the ego that sees a separateness in things. So the ego will say, "The Cadillac went from Harry to Sally." But on an infinite level, it is neither Harry's nor Sally's, it is a part of all things. It is. Where it finds itself and whose name is on the owner's manual is irrelevant.”
“I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.”
“There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.”
“While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.”
“I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.”

Source : "Marilyn Monroe" by Imogen Tilden, Sara Gaines, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2001.

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