"If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code."

-- George Steiner

#Men Quotes #Perception Quotes #Language Quotes

“When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.”
“Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on Sunday I phone everyone.”
“We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimÃ¦ra. Probably your mom.”
“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
“Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible”
“Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.”
“Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?”

Source : Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

Source : "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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