"Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Real Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.”
“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”
“I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.”
“Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.”

Source : "Unleashing Intellectual Capital". Book by Charles Ehin, 2000.
“Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes”
“Trying to order your world so that its predictable and safe is counterproducti ve to growth.”
“The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.”

Source : "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.
“No one is ever going to be as good as I was”

Source : "Paul Gascoigne: My heart stopped three times in rehab" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2009.

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