"A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too."

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Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.78, Penguin

Jim Butcher

#Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes #Hormones Quotes

“At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.”
“My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.”
“At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.”
“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
“I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joan Clarke". "The Imitation Game", www.imdb.com. 2014.
“It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.”
“When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.”
“What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.”

Source : Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10

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