"What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone."

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Source : Frederick Tennyson, Sappho, Alcaeus (1890). “The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus”, London Macmillan 1890.

Frederick Tennyson

#Echoes Quotes #Forever Quotes #Answers Quotes

“I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.”
“The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.”
“We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.”
“The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”
“He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.”
“If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.”
“Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.”

Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.209, Penguin

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