"Perhaps,â€ murmured his lordship, â€œI yielded to a compassionate impulse.â€ â€œA what?â€ gasped his best friend. â€œOh, did you think I never did so?â€ said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. â€œYou wrong me! I do, sometimesâ€”not frequently, of course, but every now and then!"

-- Georgette Heyer

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'”
“There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
“By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.”

Source : Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.155, Penguin
“Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.”
“Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.”
“Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.20, Candlewick Press
“I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.”

Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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