"When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought."

-- Elizabeth Blackwell

#Desire Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.”

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“jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.”
“Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.”
“To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.”
“Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.”
“If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.”
“Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is so improbable. I got Floyd Patterson, then, here, at the age of 76, I was fortunate to come in contact with this young man who has, in my opinion, all the requirements to be a champion that I believe he's going to be, maybe the best that ever lived.”
“I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.”

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