"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."

-- Voltaire

#Brother Quotes #Men Quotes #Monsters Quotes

“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”

Source : George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137
“I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.”
“We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.”
“You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.”
“Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.”
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
“Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish." "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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