"Writing is a way of sharing our humanity."

-- William McIlvanney

#Writing Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Way Quotes

“The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.”
“Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.”

Source : 1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.
“Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.”
“Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?”
“We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.”
“Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.”
“My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.”
“People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.”

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