"People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls."

-- Vladimir Korolenko

#Freedom Quotes #Angel Quotes #Light Quotes

“I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.
“He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.”
“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”
“Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1965). “Definitions and toasts”
“I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.”
“Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.”

Source : B. F. Skinner (2016). “The Technology of Teaching”, p.144, B. F. Skinner Foundation
“In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. Sheâ€™d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athenaâ€™s, which had led to Mount Olympusâ€™s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.”
“In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.”

You may also like:

Aleksandr Kuprin
Writer
Anton Chekhov
Physician
Fyodor Tyutchev
Poet
Grigory Zinoviev
Politician
Ivan Bunin
Writer
Ivan Goncharov
Novelist
Ivan Turgenev
Novelist
Maxim Gorky
Writer
Nikolai Gogol
Dramatist