#Artist Quotes #Culture Quotes #Nuance Quotes
“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”
“The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know anything, and I know that I don't have to fell frightened of not knowing-I just have to be here”
“Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?”
“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
Source : Death of a Doxy Ch. 9
“Anyone observing U.S. politics in recent years could easily conclude that lying about having sex is a serious offense worthy of impeachment, while lying about taking the country to war is hardly worth mentioning.”
“We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.”
“Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.”
“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”
Bronislaw Malinowski Anthropologist
Robert Staughton Lynd
