"Personality is a mask you believe in."

-- Robert J. White

#Believe Quotes #Personality Quotes #Mask Quotes

“He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.”

Source : Patrick F. McManus (2011). “The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.”

Source : Jacques Bertin (1981). “Graphics and Graphic Information Processing”, p.16, Walter de Gruyter
“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.”
“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 606), 1895.
“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”

Source : "Nigerian authors condemn country's new anti-gay law" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2014.
“Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.”
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
“It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start”

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