"the truly covetous have never enough!"

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Source : Delarivier Manley (2017). “New Atalantis”, p.257, Routledge

Delarivier Manley

#Envy Quotes #Greed Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.”
“I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.”

Source : "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.
“There are conservative people in all colours in America.”
“We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is like looking at art. I may look at a painting and dislike it because I don't understand it but then I'll look deeper and I'll see things better.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.”

Source : "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with ‘Center Stage’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.
“If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.”
“That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.”
“A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.”

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