"The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?"

-- Annie Dillard

#Beautiful Quotes #Real Quotes

“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.”
“The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.”
“But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.”
“I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside,”
“As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.”

Source : "The Top 10 Heroes to Teach Your Daughter How to Fight" by Brad Meltzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.
“It's always been important to me to be very upfront with people about the fact that I do identify as a feminist because it's an opportunity to expose people to and educated them about the movement. Young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and don't have a comprehensive understanding of what it is, I gave them example and an opportunity to ask about it. And once they saw that I wasn't the embodiment of the negative feminist stereotype - that I was a normal teen girl just like them - I think they became more open to learning about what feminism really is.”
“Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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