"Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope."

-- Anne Carson

#Beauty Quotes #Running Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.”
“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.”
“I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.”

Source : "Elisabetta Canalis on George Clooney Split: 'Break-ups Are a Personal Failure'". Chi Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. September 08, 2011.
“Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.”
“My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.”
“It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag
“Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.”
“It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.”

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