"Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves,"

-- Ralph Klein

#Passion Quotes #Worn Quotes #Sleeves Quotes

“As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.”
“Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.”
“In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.52, Princeton University Press
“To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2011). “I Will Repay”, p.66, House of Stratus
“As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities.”
“Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.”
“I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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