"I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet."

-- Jack London

#Song Quotes #Heart Quotes #Years Quotes

“The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.”
“I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.”
“Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.”
“The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.”
“It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.”

Source : Cynthia Lord (2012). “Touch Blue”, p.87, Scholastic Inc.
“Your self-portait decides your conduct.”
“Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.”
“I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.”

Source : Sylvia A. Earle (2009). “The World Is Blue”, p.257, National Geographic Books

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