"If you arenâ€™t going to say something directly to someoneâ€™s face, than donâ€™t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation."

-- Mena Grabowski Trott

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”

Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press
“At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8
“Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.”
“It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.”
“Can't all beasts be tamed?”
“By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.”

Source : Steve Erickson (2013). “Rubicon Beach: A Novel”, p.77, Open Road Media

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