"The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate."

--

Source : Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

#Men Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.”
“I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'”

Source : "Q&A – Kristoffer Polaha (Carlton Hanson, Francine’s Husband)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2011.
“Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'”
“Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to severe measures only in extreme cases, for fear lest the hardship they are already enduring in their state of captivity, joined to the strictness you might want to exercise in virtue of your authority, drive them to despair. . . . It is not light they need, but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.”
“As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.”
“I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?”

Source : "Colored People: A Memoir". Book by Henry Louis Gates, therumpus.net. 1994.
“The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit”
“What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.”

You may also like:

Alexandre Desplat
Film composer
Conn Iggulden
Author
Jeremy Paxman
Journalist
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Nick Hornby
Novelist
Olivia Williams
Film actress
Roman Polanski
Film director
Thomas Harris
Author
Tom Stoppard
Playwright