"The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it."

-- Harold S. Kushner

#Giving Quotes #Circumstances Quotes #Contribution Quotes

“In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.”

Source : Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.
“For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.”
“That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.”
“I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.”
“Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?”

Source : Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.
“You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.”
“We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.”
“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”

Source : Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”

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