"The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended."

-- Margaret Oliphant

#Running Quotes #Weed Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.”
“I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.”

Source : Frederic Manning (2007). “The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.”
“I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.”
“Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.”
“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

Source : "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.
“Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.”

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