"I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless."

-- Anne Rivers Siddons

#Thinking Quotes #Down And Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.”
“A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.”
“Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.”

Source : "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.
“There is so little that one can do for the dead!”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “The Emperor of Portugallia”, p.191, Library of Alexandria
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.”
“I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.”
“There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.”

Source : Anthony Hope (2006). “Prisoner of Zenda EasyRead Comfort Editi”, p.275, ReadHowYouWant.com

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