"Let me tell you about my family."

-- Louie Anderson

#My Family Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.”

Source : Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press
“Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'”
“A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.”

Source : "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.
“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60
“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
“Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?”
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.”
“We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.”

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