"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Achievement Quotes #Faces Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.”
“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
“In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.”
“Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.”
“It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.”
“The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.”
“Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.”
“The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.”

Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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