"All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Book Quotes #Evil Quotes #People Quotes

“For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding. Inasmuch as many of these sights appeared to be solid objects having impressive performance, they have become known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or, colloquially, flying saucers. Their positive identification is one of the major public scientific challenges of the era, with a significant number of these sights so far defying all reasonable efforts at classification.”
“She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.”
“Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.”
“You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!”
“I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”
“How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!”

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