"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Dream Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Wine Quotes

“Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?”
“Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.”
“In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.”
“I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.”
“We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.”

Source : "Quietly in Their Sleep". Book by Donna Leon, www.wired.com. May 23, 1997.
“In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.”
“Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1859). “Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker”, p.6

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