"When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not."

-- Richard Kadrey

#Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes #House Quotes

“Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer, mathematics plays in some respects a very limited, in others a very important part. As regards the limitations, it is merely necessary to refer to the sciences connected with living matter, and to the ologies generally, to see that the facts and their connections are too indistinctly known to render mathematical analysis practicable, to say nothing of the complexity.”
“Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.”
“I think the global community always has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.”
“For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.”
“Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar”
“Every creature is a word of God.”
“The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.”
“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”

Source : Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.110, Macmillan

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