“أعلم ايها العلامة، ليس في العالم مايسعد المرأة اكثر من ذلك. ان المرأة الحقيقية، استمع الى هذا لتعرف كيف تتصرف، تتمتع باللذة التي تمنحها اكثر من تمتعها بالذة التي تأخذها من الرجل. ص٢٧٧”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“That Love is all there is
Is all we know of Love,
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.”
―
Is all we know of Love,
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.”
―
“But sir…’
‘Don’t worry I said I’ll do it,’ snapped the President.
‘But sir there’s just one other thing.’
The President held the club in his hands like a seasoned baseball star. He glanced over at the Phlegm-O-Matic resting in the legionnaire’s rusted hand. ‘What?’
‘That protocol doesn’t include you.’
The President’s shoulders sank and the air left his lungs in a rush. The legionnaire turned and aimed the gun at him.”
― Our Blue Orange
‘Don’t worry I said I’ll do it,’ snapped the President.
‘But sir there’s just one other thing.’
The President held the club in his hands like a seasoned baseball star. He glanced over at the Phlegm-O-Matic resting in the legionnaire’s rusted hand. ‘What?’
‘That protocol doesn’t include you.’
The President’s shoulders sank and the air left his lungs in a rush. The legionnaire turned and aimed the gun at him.”
― Our Blue Orange
“Jane hid her trembling hands inside her muff. She wished there was a way to hide the fact that she was trembling all over. “I understood you from the first moment I saw you,” she admitted, her voice little more than a whisper.
Mr Churchill looked up from her ribbons, and she was bowled over by his beautiful, soul-piercing, intelligent eyes. “And I knew from the moment you looked at me, that you understood me like no one has ever understood me before.” ”
― My Dearest Miss Fairfax
Mr Churchill looked up from her ribbons, and she was bowled over by his beautiful, soul-piercing, intelligent eyes. “And I knew from the moment you looked at me, that you understood me like no one has ever understood me before.” ”
― My Dearest Miss Fairfax
“But I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks on a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's in the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different...”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
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