"Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Real Quotes #Progress Quotes #Charity Quotes

“I believe that. But I want you to know something â€” when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, Iâ€™m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I donâ€™t care whoâ€™s a werewolf and whoâ€™s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.”
“Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.”
“A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.”
“The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.”
“A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.”
“What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.”
“There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.”
“The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.”

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