“I’m beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don’t want to; those you want to marry and can’t.”
― Samuel Taylor, quote from Sabrina Fair
“We always blame the woman when a man falls in love, as though no man had the courage of his inclinations.”
― Samuel Taylor, quote from Sabrina Fair
“Sooner or later you learn that there’s a conspiracy of little people in this world to cut you down to their size. And then you grow up and make your choice: to live on their terms or your own.”
― Samuel Taylor, quote from Sabrina Fair
“(I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.”
― Samuel Taylor, quote from Sabrina Fair
“There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster.”
― Samuel Taylor, quote from Sabrina Fair
Samuel Taylor
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date June 13, 1912
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“[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”
― George Orwell, quote from Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“Good-bye, Cadan,' I said, backing out the door.
'If I hear anything new, I’ll come to you.'
'Be careful,' I warned. 'My guard dog bites.'
He grinned, and that impish gleam returned to his eyes. 'And you don’t?'
'Wouldn’t you like to know.'
'Don’t get me excited.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, quote from Wings of the Wicked
“You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last.”
― Jalpa Williby, quote from Chaysing Dreams
“It is hard to believe that nearly all the vast apparent variety in Nature results from the monotony of repeatedly combining just these three basic actions. But it does. I'll outline a bit of how some of this variety arises.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”
― Amitav Ghosh, quote from The Glass Palace
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