"The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory."

-- Ivan Doig

#Love Is Quotes #Contradictory Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.”
“The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.”
“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”
“I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?”
“Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .”
“I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
“My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.”
“It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.”

Source : Herbert Harold Read (1957). “The Granite Controversy: Geological Addresses Illustrating the Evolution of a Disputant”, London, Murby

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