"Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?"

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Lying Quotes #Two Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
“Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.”
“All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.”

Source : "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.
“Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.”

Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
“Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?”
“Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.173, William H. Calvin
“... every dog is allowed one bite.”
“We're gonna rock around the clock.”

Source : Song: (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock, 2006

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