"Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep."

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Source : 1926 The Land,'Spring'.

Vita Sackville-West

#Sleep Quotes #Winter Quotes #Bees Quotes

“There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.”
“It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?”
“My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.”

Source : Interview with Corey Levitan, Rolling Stone Online, December 02, 1999.
“Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.”
“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.”

Source : James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”
“It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.”
“The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books
“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.”

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