"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."

-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Sympathy Quotes #Expression Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.”
“Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.”
“All the wisdom doesnâ€™t reside in one party.”
“President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'”
“Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.”
“Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.”
“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“This poet is a griot in search of a village.”

Source : Kwame Dawes (2013). “Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems”, p.109, Copper Canyon Press

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