"If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Nice Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Heart Quotes

“We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.”
“As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.”
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
“Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and ***** is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.”
“The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.”
“There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.”
“It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.”

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