"Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Writing Quotes #Sea Quotes #People Quotes

“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2011). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (Enhanced Edition): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.681, Bantam Dell
“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.”

Source : Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.77, Anchor
“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”
“The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.”

Source : Richard Allen EPSTEIN, Richard Allen Epstein (2009). “Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain”, p.281, Harvard University Press
“Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.”
“Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.”
“We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.”
“I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.”

Source : Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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