"Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence."

-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Happiness Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ends Quotes

“If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing.”
“So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark”
“Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.”
“Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.”
“Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.”
“My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.”

Source : "Why Me?" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2008.
“You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.”
“Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”

Source : As recorded by Thucydides, in the "History of the Peloponnesian War". Translated by Richard Crawley, 1951.

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