"The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core."

-- Cornelia Funke

#Flower Quotes #Dresses Quotes #Rotting Quotes

“We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements.”

Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”
“In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.”
“The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we donâ€™t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.”
“If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.”
“It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.”
“Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.”
“One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.”
“People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.”

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