"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Hands Quotes #Water Quotes #Gone Quotes

“I totally understand O.J., I get it.”
“I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.”
“But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.”

Source : David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.2, Taylor & Francis
“a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.”
“Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.”

Source : Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.88, Transaction Publishers
“I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.”
“There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.”
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”

Source : "Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression". Book by Lana R. Castle, p. 258, 2006.

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