"My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion."

-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Mother Quotes #Religious Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Accessible design is good design.”
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”
“Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.”
“The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.”
“Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.”
“Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.”
“Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.”
“What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.”

Source : Publius Papinius Statius, David Roy Shackleton Bailey (2003). “L207n Statius Ii”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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