"I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to."

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Source : John Braine (1980). “Room at the top”

John Braine

#Hate Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.”
“The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.”

Source : Saint Catherine (of Genoa), Paul Garvin (1964). “The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa”
“The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.”
“Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.”
“How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.”
“Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.”

Source : "Are We Living In An Unprecedented Age Of Terror?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 1, 2016.
“When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.”

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