"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Buckets Quotes #Hills Quotes #Companion Quotes

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

Source : P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.569, Random House
“Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.”
“Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'. In this sense Heidegger is not simply 'mistaken' - he just asks us, as philosophers mostly do, to think more carefully about what we're saying.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.”
“Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing”
“I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.”
“The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.”
“Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim-- except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.”

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