"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Fate Quotes

“Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.”
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Source : Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall, delivered 2 December 1964, The University of California at Berkeley
“Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself -- only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.”
“I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people”
“It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.”
“Skip your brain and go right to the gut,”
“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”
“It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.”

Source : 1969 TheWhole Bloody Bird,'Aphs'.

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