"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."

-- Louise Bogan

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Littles Quotes

“So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."”
“Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.”
“The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else”

Source : "Brian May - A Regal Audience". Vox Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. March 1991.
“I didnâ€™t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.”
“If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.”
“Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
“It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.7

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