quotes about Strands

“Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”

“Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

“Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner”

“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”

“Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.”

“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. VI, 1938.

“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”

“We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.”

“If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go-you'll find family.”

“You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.”