"This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand."

-- John Milton

#Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.”
“Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'”
“The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.”
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”

Source : "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.
“A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.”
“I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.”
“We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

Source : "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.

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