"All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Beautiful Quotes #Song Quotes #Men Quotes

“It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.”
“All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.”
“Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.”

Source : "Evolution in Action". Book by Julian S. Huxley, 1953.
“If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.302, Oneworld Publications
“My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.”
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
“Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.”

Source : "Death of revolutionary" by Susan Faludi, www.newyorker.com. April 15, 2013.
“If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!”

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