"It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult."

-- Elizabeth Aston

#Appreciation Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Different Quotes

“Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.”
“Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.”
“Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?”
“There's no such thing as an anti-war film,”
“The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.”
“A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.”
“As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press
“The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.”

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