Quotes
Authors
William Golding
"Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?" --
William Golding
#Exercise Quotes
#Simple Quotes
#Mad Quotes
“I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.”
Source : FaceBook post by Ray Charles from Nov 05, 2013
“It's not because I love you, but because I only love you. If I don't have you, then I won't have any other choices.”
“Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.”
Source : Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.
“When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.”
“You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.”
“You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.”
“Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.”
“Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.”