"My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket."

-- W. P. Kinsella

#Lying Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.”

Source : Alaa Al Aswany (2004). “The Yacoubian Building”, p.135, I.B.Tauris
“Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.”
“True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.”

Source : Cara Lockwood (2004). “I Do (but I Don't)”, p.373, Simon and Schuster
“We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.”
“Not all celebrities are dunces.”
“Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.”
“Life is not life at all without delight.”
“It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.”

Source : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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