#Light Quotes #Water Quotes #Democracy Quotes
“Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.”
“The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.”
“Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay.”
“This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.”
“Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.”
“We need to get good processes in place, we need to use them, and then we need to impose good sanctions that make our campuses safe. This case is encouraging because the first step to the solution is empathy.”
“A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.”
“Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.”
Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.11, Oxford University Press
Aldous Huxley Writer
E. M. Forster Novelist
Frieda Lawrence Novelist
James Joyce Novelist
Joseph Conrad Author
Rudyard Kipling Writer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet
Thomas Hardy Novelist
Virginia Woolf Writer
