"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."

-- John Dryden

#Reality Quotes #Literature Quotes

“If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.”
“The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.”

Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.
“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”
“Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!”
“Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”

Source : Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.
“I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.”
“We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.”

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