"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."

-- Ian Hamilton Finlay

#People Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Annoying Quotes

“Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.”
“Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.”
“If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers.”
“Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.”
“I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.”
“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And thatâ€”in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.”

Source : "The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words". Book edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.
“A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.”

Source : Source: www.tor.com
“When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.”

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