"What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Fear Quotes #Sleep Quotes #What If Quotes

“I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.”
“A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”
“As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.”
“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”

Source : On the scaffold, in T. B. Macauley 'Histories of England' vol. 1 (1849) ch. 1
“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”
“Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.”
“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”

Source : Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.
“People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them so that they start to glimpse something more of themselves.”

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