"Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as if they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them -- all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration."

-- Muriel Barbery

#Inspiration Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

Source : Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”
“Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”
“Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.”
“Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.”
“Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.”

Source : Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.
“But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.”

Source : "Luke Kirby’s Character Curveball". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2012.
“As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.”
“Options are good. Keeps people choosing.”

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