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“It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.”
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“If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.”
Source : William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”
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“We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.”
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“By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.”
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“Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!”
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“A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.”
Source : Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.”
