"[The] National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding."

-- Robert Bork

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”
“The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.”
“I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.”

Source : "O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Jonathan Valania, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.
“I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.”
“A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.”
“How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.”
“But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.”

Source : Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black
“I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.”

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