"History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines."

-- A. N. Wilson

#History Quotes #Doe Quotes #Grievance Quotes

“Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”
“Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].”
“If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.”
“Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.”
“There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.”

Source : "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.
“The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.”
“Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.”

Source : "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.
“Perspective: use it or lose it.”

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