"Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails."

-- Bill Mollison

#Dirty Quotes #People Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.”
“Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.”
“I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.”
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.”
“On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
“The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
“I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.221, Penguin

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