"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

-- Robert Wilson Lynd

#Life Quotes #Animal Quotes #Men Quotes

“All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.”
“The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.”
“I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.”
“Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.”
“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
“Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!”
“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”

You may also like:

Charles Lamb
Writer
E. V. Lucas
Playwright
Eliza Leslie
Author
George William Russell
Writer
Helen Lynd
Philosopher
Hilaire Belloc
Writer
Richard Ford
Novelist
Richard Steele
Writer
Rose Macaulay
Writer