"Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Quality Quotes #Vices Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.”
“In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.”
“I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.”
“A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people”
“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source : David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.53, Island Press
“I aint trippen never slicking or slacking on my pimping”
“He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.”
“It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other”

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