"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Faith Quotes #Religion Quotes #Authority Quotes

“The coffee will be ready in a jitney.”
“Iâ€™m not going to change who I am just because people think itâ€™s weird,”
“I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato”
“I don't really enjoy being the center of attention, I find it hard. I think it's the celebrity culture you guys have over here, which we don't have so much, and if we have it I blend it out. I've been very successful by just blending it out, by not going to premieres and things. So if I'm invited to a premiere, I would go behind the photo screen, because why would I get my photo taken? I just don't see the point of myself being photographed. I'm not like this because I think I'm too cool. I'm not judging it, it's just not my thing.”
“There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can.”
“We've got to rescue our democracy by using it.”
“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.122, Faber & Faber

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