"I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies."

-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Air Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Body Quotes

“Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres--and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.
“He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.”
“I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.”

Source : Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“Evil be to him who evil thinks.”
“I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.”
“Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies- two ideas that on good days I believe wholeheartedly and on bad days I denounce as a bunch of bull.”
“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?”

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