"Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad."

-- Ivo Andric

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“I don't want to offend people.”
“The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.”
“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. Â The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Â Fear is what blocks an artist. Â The fear of not being good enough. Â The fear of not finishing. Â The fear of failure and of success. Â The fear of beginning at all.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Source : Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)
“If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.”
“Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.”
“Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever,”

Source : "Michael Jackson’s New Child Molestation Allegations: Wade Robson Accuses Late Singer Of Sexual Abuse". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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