"On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Sight Quotes #Fire Quotes #Sides Quotes

“Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.”
“If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.”
“The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.”
“Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.”
“Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.”
“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)
“The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (2000). “The healers: a novel”, Per Ankh Pub
“When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.”

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