"Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation."

-- Florence Nightingale

#Passion Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.”
“I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.”

Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”
“It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.”
“In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.”
“When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.”
“I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues...”

Source : Song: After All These Years, Album: Eternal and Lowdown
“I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.”
“I'm not going to watch two TV shows with vaginas in them unless somebody tells me why they're different!”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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