"Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow."

-- Democritus

#Blow Quotes #Men Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
“Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.”
“What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?”
“I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like Ladies and Gentlemen. That'll be a cool name for a kid. This is my son, Ladies and Gentlemen! Then, when he gets out of hand, I get to go, Ladies and Gentlemen, please!”
“The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.”

Source : Letter From Dar Es-Salaam to E.S. Reddy, www.sahistory.org.za. January 17, 1967.
“I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.”
“The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.”

Source : 1992 The Unnatural Nature of Science.

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