"Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!"

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.”
“You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.”

Source : "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.
“A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.”

Source : "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.
“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”
“Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.”
“In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.”
“Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.”

Source : "Girl Genius". Comic series by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, (2001-).
“But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?”

Source : Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55

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