"A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats."

-- Michel de Montaigne

#Men Quotes #Should Quotes

“When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.”
“You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.”
“No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other peopleâ€™s livestock. Other peopleâ€™s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didnâ€™t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.39, Hachette UK
“All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.”
“In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.”
“Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.”
“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite....”

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