"Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing."

-- Robert Harbison

#Attitude Quotes #Way Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.”
“Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.”
“The existing American laws we use in a pinch just do not adequately protect artists or any other group of rental tenants. For example, artist certification. You can always get around that. Every society that does not want to really protect tenants' rights tries historic preservation. But that says nothing about the right of people to stay in their homes. It says that the building cannot be demolished. But it does not say who is allowed to live in the building.”
“Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.”
“[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder.”
“Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.”
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnâ€™t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesnâ€™t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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