"Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends."

-- John Ruskin

#Devil Quotes #Chance Quotes #Obedience Quotes

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”
“If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.”
“Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.”

Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative qualities of actual things”, Small PressDistribution
“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.”
“True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.”
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.”
“I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.”

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