"Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Important Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.”
“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”
“Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.”
“When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.”
“But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.”
“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”

Source : Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes "Evolution as Fact and Theory" (1983)
“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.”

Source : "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.
“It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.”

Source : Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2007). “Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo”, p.243, Macmillan

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