"It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private."

-- Nicholas Sparks

#Color Quotes #Might Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”
“My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.”

Source : Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”
“I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.”
“We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.”
“The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.”
“According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.”
“Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.133, Oxford University Press

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