"Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!"

-- Alexander Pope

#Winter Quotes #Shining Quotes #Frost Quotes

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
“When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.”
“I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.”
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”

Source : Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
“The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.”
“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
“Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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