"A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life."

-- A. A. Gill

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal.”
“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press
“the Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal ...”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1853). “Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar”, p.104
“The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.”
“Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.”
“As conscious adult women, we need to instill a different value system. Actually, it is an innate value system. We need to tell the world that being compassionate about other people does not make you weak, and it is not intrinsically a female trait. It is a trait of the evolved human being, and it is a trait that we need to hold up as something of great worth. As women, we need to promote that, emphasize that, and nurture that. This is part of what we are doing with Global Girl Media.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.”

Source : "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.
“The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.”

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