"Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers."

“Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

“I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Sep 22, 2015

“Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.”

“In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.”

“I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.”

Source : "I Think Therefore I Play". Book by Andrea Pirlo, 2013.

“Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It's important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes a long way.”

“Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities”

Source : Clarence Jordan (2004). “Cotton Patch Gospel: Hebrews and the General Epistles”, p.9, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

“The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.”

Source : "An Intimate History of Humanity". Book by Theodore Zeldin, 1994.