"It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy."

-- Charles de Lint

#Enemy Quotes #Sound Quotes #May Quotes

“Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.”
“We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.”

Source : "Climate Talks Urge Quick Cut to Global Warming". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 12, 2007.
“The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.”
“I’m reminded today how unpredictable God can be.”
“Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.”
“I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are ***** and the people who are not.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die [and] The Barbarous Coast”, New York : Knopf
“Women and elephants never forget.”

Source : Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"
“For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.”

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