"His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)"

-- Siegfried Sassoon

#Voice Quotes #White Quotes #Rose Quotes

“It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.”
“Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.”
“When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.”

Source : Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.”
“It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.”

Source : William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”
“It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.79, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
“For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.”

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