"But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin."

-- Rebecca West

#Running Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.”

Source : Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”

Source : Marabel Morgan (1986). “The Electric Woman”
“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place...”
“Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value.”

Source : Philip Kotler (2012). “Kotler On Marketing”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes people can get shitty, but you won't last in music industry by taking things personally.”
“I have to get the whole sense of the guy for me to be turned on by him, for me to actually like him. I like someone that has motivation and is really dedicated to something.”
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

Source : Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press
“It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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