"I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity."

-- Alexander Girard

#Irrational Quotes #Sane Quotes #Frivolity Quotes

“Our ideals are our better selves.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
“There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.”
“Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.”
“Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.”

Source : Idiot's Delight act 2, sc. 2 (1936)
“we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.”

Source : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr
“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.”
“Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.”

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