"And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.”
“In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.”
“In a democracy, power is not permanent.”
“Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”
“No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.”
“You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.”
“I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.61, Broadway Books
“We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

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