"That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden"

-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression Quotes #Garden Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.”
“I would like to start by calling bullshit.”
“Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.”
“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

Source : Jan Phillips, Cathy Conheim, Christine Forester, Circle of Women (2000). “A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call”, Breakthru Press
“We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.”
“While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand Institute in Washington DC. This would have helped the city enormously, as he was the detective who cracked the '93 blasts case. But the commissioner declined to let his subordinate take up the offer from Rand, because of his fear that it was CIA-affiliated. That culture of suspicion needs to change; India needs to learn how other democracies fight terror.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.”
“For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.”

Source : Eric Foner (1988). “Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877”, Harpercollins

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