"The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide."

-- Keri Hulme

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Reason Quotes

“In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.”
“Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.”
“My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.”
“And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.”
“I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.”

Source : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.
“Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
“Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.”
“Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.”

Source : "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.

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