"I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches."

-- George Edmund Street

#Country Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source : David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.53, Island Press
“Death frees from the fear of dying”
“I am a believer and a conformist.”

Source : "La Renaissance" by Georges Rouault, XX, no. 10-12, 1937.
“Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.”
“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”
“Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.”
“It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.”
“Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.”

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