"The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past."

-- Arthur Koestler

#Real Quotes #Animal Quotes #Past Quotes

“I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.”
“I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi.”

Source : "Translator Behind Elena Ferrante Novels Says Her Job Is To Be An 'Enabler'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.
“But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.”
“If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.”
“Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.”
“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half”
“Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.”

Source : "Rowan Williams says goodbye to Canterbury in BBC documentary" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.
“The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.”

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