"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below"

-- Claudius

#My Thoughts Quotes

“To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.”

Source : "There Will Be War". Book by Jerry Pournelle, 1983.
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
“I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.”
“It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.”
“I'm Danny Worsnop and I slay poon.”
“When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.”

Source : Source: bknation.org
“When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.”
“Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, University of Chicago Press

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