"Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long'd to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree."

-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#Selfish Quotes #Rain Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods”

Source : Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)
“Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.”
“The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934
“In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.”
“My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.”
“It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?”

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