"States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct."

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Fate Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Engagement Quotes

“It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.”
“Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.”
“the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond oneâ€™s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of oneâ€™s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.”
“Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.”
“Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.”
“If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kirstie Alley from Aug 19, 2012
“In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.”
“Nature â€¦ is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.”

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