"Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike."

-- Lydia M. Child

#Fashion Quotes #Flower Quotes #Mold Quotes

“Victory passes back and forth between men.”
“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”
“The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for â€” which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates â€” we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.
“Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Authors in general donâ€™t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.”
“Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.”

Source : "Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: 'F*ck Off!'". Interview with MG Siegler, techcrunch.com. May 24, 2010.
“Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.”
“It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durableâ€”like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.”

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