"You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us."

-- Alexandra Ripley

#Home Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.”
“I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves”
“The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.”

Source : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton
“I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.”
“I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.”
“I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.”
“Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.”

Source : Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.21, New World Library
“We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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