"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."

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Source : Katharine Butler Hathaway (2000). “The Little Locksmith: A Memoir”, p.14, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Katharine Butler Hathaway

#Fear Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.”
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”

Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.57, Harvard University Press
“I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.”
“From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.”
“They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.”
“As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.”
“Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.”
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

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