"Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together"

-- Evelyn Underhill

#Fall Quotes #Men Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.”

Source : "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.”
“Now itâ€™s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. Whatâ€™s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.”
“Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.”
“This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage
“Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.”

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