Source : Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
#Life Quotes #Roots Quotes #Individuality Quotes
“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”
“The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.”
Source : M. J. Rose (2016). “The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Novel”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.”
“Try to be of some use to others.”
“Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain”
“Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.”
“Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.”
Source : Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“Exaggeration is my only reality.”
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