"Humanitarianism is rude."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Rude Quotes #Humanitarianism Quotes

“When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me.”
“I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.”
“For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.”
“When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.”

Source : "Symbolic Logic". book by John Venn, 1881.
“Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.”
“I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.”
“I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.”

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