"We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?"

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Beer Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Earthquakes Quotes

“To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an exultation of individuality (in private character often a virtue) to the condition of a political dogma, which destroyed the spirit of community and reduced men to so many equipollent atoms of humanity, without sense of brotherhood or purpose.”

Source : Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”
“Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.”
“Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.”
“That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.”
“I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.”
“A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.”
“I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.”
“Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .”

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