"You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience."

-- Victor Hugo

#Honesty Quotes #Strange Quotes #Speak Quotes

“True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.”
“Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.”
“He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.”
“It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.”
“I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.”
“I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.”
“God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that itâ€™s sinking.”

Source : Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.122, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Something good will come of all things yet”

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