Selera Rasa Quotes & Sayings

Soon after they went back, Jules said to Jim: 'I love Magda. But it's a habit; it's not a great Love, not the real thing. To me, she's like a young mother and an attentive daughter, both at once.' 'But that's fine!' 'It's not the love I've always dreamed of having.' 'Does that kind of love exist?' said Jim. 'Of course! My love for Lucie.' Jim checked himself from saying, 'Because you do not possess her.' 'Besides,' Jules went on, 'knowing myself as I do, I shall never be able to forgive any woman for loving me. To love me is a sign of perversion or compromise -- and Lucie doesn't suffer from either. There's not a particle of me that she accepts.' 'With her, any man could think that.' 'Yes, could...' said Jules 'But I do.' 'Oh well,' said Jim, 'it's heroic and one can't help respecting it. It's a bit like martyrdom. And it's the key to your Life. If Lucie loved you...' 'She wouldn't be Lucie.' said Jules. — Henri-Pierre Roche

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. — W. Somerset Maugham

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. — Edwin Louis Cole

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me. — Stacie Orrico

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone. — Jessica Valenti

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on. — Richard Dawkins

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. — Avicenna

There is an unspoken pact between best friends that stipulates the following:
To induce laughter, all you have to do is look at your partner-in-crime - even in the absence of said crime. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If
you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? — George R R Martin

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden. — Tasha Tudor

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson