"Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."

-- Juvenal

#Ravens Quotes #Censorship Quotes #Dove Quotes

“Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief”
“What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.”

Source : "Dying in Darfur" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2004.
“People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.”
“I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.”
“I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.”
“In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.”
“A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.”
“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”

Source : "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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