"Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it."

-- Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg

#Distance Quotes #Sun Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.”
“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”
“The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it workâ€¦ You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.”
“I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where I had magical powers. I told everybody in the chapel 'zap, zap, zap, zap!' I said 'Where's my magical powers at?' Well, you can't believe what you read in the press. I ain't got no magical powers or mystical trips or anything like that. It's kind of silly.”
“The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.”
“I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793), as quoted in David William Bates "Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France" (p. 169), 2002.
“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.”

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