"A name is a solemn thing ..."

-- L. T. Meade

#Names Quotes #Solemn Quotes

“By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.”
“To be is to be vulnerable.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.184, Univ of California Press
“When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.”
“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.”
“Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.”

Source : "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.
“Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.”
“Life bites like a dog.”
“These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.”

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