"You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Time Quotes #Water Quotes #Looks Quotes

“In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.”
“Attitudes toward food have completely changed.”
“I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.”
“In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason Ã¡ priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.”
“We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.”
“Women are complicated. We all know that.”
“Economic growth which strips out the planetâ€™s ecosystems is not sustainable”
“We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.”

Source : "The natural history of nonsense". Book by Bergen Evans, 1946.

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