"[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!"

-- Harriet Martineau

#Pain Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.”
“We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,”
“We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?”
“We know violence isnâ€™t the answer. When we take up our arms, weâ€™re talking about our vote.”
“While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.”
“Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like LaocoÃ¶ns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.”
“As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.”
“Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.”

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