"People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security."

-- James Gosling

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.”
“Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was Davidâ€™s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.”
“I'd love to write full time. But it's not something that is due to me because I'm a writer. Times are very hard for doing the thing you love, but the payoff for not having much money is that you love your job. A balance would be good. But yes, given infinite funds, or a guaranteed regular income of some kind, I'd happily shut myself away and write stories for the rest of what I've got in me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”

Source : "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.
“The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.”

Source : Kenneth Tynan (1964). “Tynan on theatre”
“When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.217, MIRA
“Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.”

Source : "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.
“A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.”

Source : Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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