"I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong."

-- Malvina Reynolds

#Scared Quotes #Respectable Quotes

“Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.”
“Preach always. Use words if necessary.”
“If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.”
“We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.”
“New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.”
“Une histoire d'amour dont les Ã©pisodes ont Ã©tÃ© mÃ©langÃ©s par un fou”
“There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.”

Source : François Viète, T. Richard Witmer (2006). “The Analytic Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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