"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?"

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Vita Sackville-West

#Writing Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Moments Quotes

“They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.”
“"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."”
“There are some people who make a big distinction between n - a, which they say is OK, and n - - . Now, in my view, it's important to know about that distinction, because some people put a lot of weight on it. I don't.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.”
“The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.”
“You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.33, Pan Macmillan
“The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.”
“We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.”

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