"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all."

-- Louisa May Alcott

#Girl Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Pretty Things Quotes

“What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.”
“Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.”
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”
“Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.”
“There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.”
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”
“Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.”
“He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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