"Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives."

-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

#Passion Quotes #Loss Quotes #Gambling Quotes

“I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.”
“Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.”
“Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS”
“I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.”
“A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.”
“I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.”
“Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.”
“Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'”

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