"It becomes an emperor to die standing."

-- Vespasian

#Emperor Quotes #Standing Quotes

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”
“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.”
“What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.”
“The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.”
“The Republican Party is not inclusive.”
“Hey, get a nice shot of the brand-new Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley!”
“That Bible is read best - which is practiced most!”
“When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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