"Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Art Quotes #Dark Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA
“I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.”
“White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.”
“Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.”
“It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.”
“I didnâ€™t know what made people want to be friends. I didnâ€™t know what made people attractive to one another. I didnâ€™t know what underlay social interactions.”
“It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.”
“Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.”

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