"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."

-- Winston Churchill

#Passion Quotes #Past Quotes #Echoes Quotes

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
“In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.”
“Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.183, Vintage
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
“The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.”
“At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.”
“How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.”

Source : Herbie Brennan (2011). “Faerie Wars”, p.167, A&C Black
“When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.”

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