"Maybe Iâ€™m a human, but Iâ€™m a me-and-Ma as well."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Wells Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.”
“Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.”
“You need bruises to know blessings and I have known both.”
“God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.”
“Health is just not valued until illness comes.”
“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result â€¦ in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”
“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”
“Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.”

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