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“My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals”
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“A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.”
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“Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.”
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“I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.”
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“Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.”
Source : Bill Bright (1994). “The Christian and Witnessing: Bringing Words of Hope to the World Around You : Step 7”, New Life Publications
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“The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.”
Source : Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet
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“And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.”
Source : Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.61, Open Road Media
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“A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.”
