"Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations."

-- Hermann von Helmholtz

#Real Quotes #Light Quotes #Black Quotes

“One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.”
“I can feel the thunder underneath my feet”
“He was giving up on keeping me alive, letting natureâ€“or rather mob justiceâ€“take its course. When he returned, and I was dead, he wouldn't hold anyone responsible. He would not mourn. All this I could hear in those three words.”
“No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.”
“Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est”
“That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.”
“I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.”
“I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.”

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