"When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?"

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Passion Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.”
“No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.”
“Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.”
“Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.”
“If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?”
“I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.”
“You're just a crazy murderer who's confused himself with a god.... nothing more, nothing less.”
“[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.”

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