"When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view."

-- Zoe Leonard

#Believe Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.”
“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
“Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.119, Egmont UK
“Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.”
“Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer.”
“Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.”
“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.36

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