"Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices."

-- Frances Moore LappÃ©

#Intelligent Quotes #Choices Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.”
“I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.”
“One of the best ways of becoming an effective parentâ€”or, for that matter, an effective human beingâ€”is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to â€œget into their world.”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Cheryl Erwin, Roslyn Ann Duffy (2007). “Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child”, p.44, Harmony
“I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'”
“A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on the computer. However, for us, when we were making it, we had to believe it was all handcrafted.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.”
“The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.”
“Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?”

Source : William Habington (1948). “Poems”

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