"What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star"

-- Emily Dickinson

#Stars Quotes #Assault Quotes #Creatures Quotes

“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is â€“ in other words, not a thing, but a think.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.”

Source : "Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World". Book by Edythe Draper, 1992.
“Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.”
“Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.”
“I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.”

Source : "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer". Interview with Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.
“When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.”
“My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.”
“About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.”

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