"I realize that this is not what you want to put on a cover with Wonder Woman emblazoned on it. She could be in trouble, but she doesn't need to be completely out of control. So whenever I'm doing these covers, I try to make sure that there's an element where, even if there is danger, it's not something where agency is taken away from her."

-- Cliff Chiang

#Book Quotes #Taken Quotes #Agency Quotes

“I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.”
“In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.”
“Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.”
“Aggression is simply another name for government.”

Source : Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.
“And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.”
“Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.”
“A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.”
“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”

Source : Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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