"In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)"

-- Jonathan Stroud

#Water Quotes #Desert Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The one thing that we wanted to make sure in the pilot [of "Mary and Jane"] is that we could go everywhere. Part of the fun of them being a delivery service is that they go to different areas episode to episode. We do have an episode in the beach and there is an episode in the luxury rehab. It's all different kinds of things we are making fun of in LA.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.”
“No, I try not to be a negative thinker.”
“Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.”
“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”
“People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)”
“I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.”
“Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.”

Source : "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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