"(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness."

-- Wyndham Lewis

#Cities Quotes #Toronto Quotes #Earth Quotes

“There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.”

Source : "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.
“A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”
“Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.”
“Your own destiny, create your own recipe.”

Source : Song: Nellyville, Album: Nellyville
“When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.10, Harper Collins
“Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?”
“Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.”
“Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.”

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