"The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it."

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Source : F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

F. L. Lucas

#Use Quotes #Panic Quotes #Flight Quotes

“It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person. There's a lot of music out there that's like, "I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black," and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.”
“With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.”
“Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become... .”
“The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.”
“To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.”
“Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 10, 2012
“I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.348, Pan Macmillan
“If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.”

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