"Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Strong Quotes #Cat Quotes #Pride Quotes

“To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.”
“The French cook; we open tins.”
“Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.”

Source : Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius (1968). “Apollo in the democracy: the cultural obligation of the architect”
“Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.”
“This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!”

Source : John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1891). “John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides”
“If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.”
“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

Source : "Nonconformity: Writing on Writing". Book by Nelson Algren, 1996.
“They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus”, p.197, 谷月社

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