Joe Chung quotes

Joe Chung quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
“But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.”
“Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.”
“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
“He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."”

Source : Amy Plum (2011). “Die For Me: Number 1 in series”, p.95, Hachette UK

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