"For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally."

--

Stanislaw Lem

#Believe Quotes #Together Quotes #World Quotes

“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

Source : 1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.
“If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.”

Source : "Montel Williams still the talk of the town". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world”

Source : Jane Blocker, Ana Mendieta (1999). “Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile”, p.34, Duke University Press
“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.”
“Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.”
“Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.”
“THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. â€œThank God,â€ he says, pressing his forehead to the door. â€œI was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to â€¦ smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.”
“The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.”

You may also like:

Andrei Tarkovsky
Film writer
Arthur C. Clarke
Film writer
Czeslaw Milosz
Poet
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist
Isaac Asimov
Author
Philip K. Dick
Novelist
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Robert A. Heinlein
Science writer
Roger Zelazny
Writer