Quotes
Authors
J. Robbins
"I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like spectacle" --
Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
J. Robbins
#Thinking Quotes
#Rocks Quotes
#Political Quotes
“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”
“Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.”
“NEEMO missions are a challenging and exciting aspect of astronaut training. The research we conduct during those missions allows us to test new technologies and exploration concepts in conditions similar to the ones we'll experience in space. They are a great opportunity to help me expand my knowledge and develop new tools for future space exploration.”
“For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.”
“Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”
Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House
“War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.”
Source : "The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade". Book by George Meade, 1913.
“There is nothing like first-hand evidence.”