"We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature."

-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Order Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorioâ€™s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.”
“If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.”
“I usually tell somebody if a songâ€™s for them. I donâ€™t always tell them if itâ€™s about them.”
“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”

Source : Anna Sewell (2014). “BLACK BEAUTY: Fiction, Novel, Children's literature”, p.27, editionNEXT.com
“I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.”
“You never graduate from the school of discipleship.”
“It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.”
“Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.”

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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