"Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Perspective Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.”
“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.”
“FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.”
“We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.”
“We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.”
“This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.”

Source : Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.139, World Scientific
“Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.”
“Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”

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