#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes
“I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.”
“Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.”
“We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.”
“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
“Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.”
Source : Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy (1822). “The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:”, p.148
“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
“John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily . . . So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years.”
“We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.”
Amy Lowell Poet
Edgar Allan Poe Author
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet
James Thomas Fields Publisher
John Greenleaf Whittier Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
Washington Irving Author
William C. Bryant Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician
