All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.


Graham Swift

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I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't ima...
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
TAYLOR SWIFT
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
TAYLOR SWIFT
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you&#...
TAYLOR SWIFT
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spe...
TAYLOR SWIFT
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relati...
TAYLOR SWIFT
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...
TAYLOR SWIFT
It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that yo...
TAYLOR SWIFT
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
JONATHAN SWIFT
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...
JONATHAN SWIFT
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
JONATHAN SWIFT
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinv...
TAYLOR SWIFT
I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT
People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when ...
TAYLOR SWIFT
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of y...
TAYLOR SWIFT
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate...
TAYLOR SWIFT