"What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world."

-- Eva Ibbotson

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Able Quotes

“Iâ€™ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard itâ€™s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once youâ€™ve given something planetary status itâ€™s kind of mean to take it away.”
“The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.”
“I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.”
“If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?”
“Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.”
“Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.”
“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.”
“Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding”

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