"I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first."

-- Robert Hood

#Firsts Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Asks Quotes

“The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”
“If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.”
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.”
“I write a little plan for the day. I write down what time I need to get up to go to the race, just so I'm organised in my mind. That way all I have to focus on during the day is the race, not how I'm going to get there. When you're training it's good to know what you're doing every day. You need to have a plan.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.”
“Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?”
“The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.”
“Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

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