"It's just that you don't respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn't count or its's no good. Well, I don't want what you want. And I don't see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care?"

-- Jennifer Crusie

#Mean Quotes #Long Quotes #Live Your Life Quotes

“Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by God to join in with the dance of the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”
“I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.”
“People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.”
“It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.”
“Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.”

Source : Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press
“We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.”
“There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?”
“Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."”

Source : G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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