"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."

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Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

Crystal Eastman

#Lying Quotes #Together Quotes #Lambs Quotes

“The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;â€”war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;â€”war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.”
“When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.”
“A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate”
“I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!”
“There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.”

Source : 1990 Diary entry, 30 Nov.
“Regarding love what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.”
“Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.”
“I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.”

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