"Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot."

-- Edgar Quinet

#Philosophy Quotes #May Quotes #Eloquence Quotes

“In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.”
“Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.”
“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.”
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if someone appears elsewhere whose need is greater it leaves its old channel and moves toward him. Our generosity may leave us empty, but our emptiness then pulls gently at the whole until the thing in motion returns to replenish us. Social nature abhors a vacuum.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.29, Vintage
“I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.”
“Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”
“Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out”

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