"Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman." Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?" She killed her enemies and ate them."

-- D. J. MacHale

#Hero Quotes #Men Quotes #Names Quotes

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323
“The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage
“I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.”
“When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.”
“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“There are few places more lonely than a crowded night club.”
“The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.”
“I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Dishes on Gossip Girl". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2010.

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