"I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made."

-- Henry Van Dyke

#Fishing Quotes #Wish Quotes #May Quotes

“I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an I hate skinny mentality.”

Source : "Daniela Ruah Officially Checks In". Interview with Julian Sancton, www.esquire.com. February 4, 2015.
“This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.”
“In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.”
“I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.”
“I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?”
“The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.”

Source : Gerald James Holton (1998). “The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction”, p.250, Harvard University Press
“My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldnâ€™t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. Thatâ€™s all that I can say. â€˜If I fall....â€™ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.”

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