"My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought."

-- Thomas Eakins

#Honor Quotes #Neglect Quotes #Misunderstanding Quotes

“It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.”

Source : Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.42, Vintage
“If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”

Source : "The Cloud in Trousers" (1915) (translation by George Reavey)
“That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.”

Source : Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett
“[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?Here she laughs. You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.”
“So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,Â— The after-echo of departed years,Â— And touches all the soul to tears.”
“Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.”
“The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.”

Source : FOX "Freedom Watch" with Judge Andrew Napolitano, April 29, 2009.

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