"Just because you believe it doesn't make it so."

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.”

“Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”

“In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.”

“Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

“Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.”

“I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system - given the power and cultural relationships - can move toward managing the connections between the developing communities. There are many, many hard questions here - including, obviously, ones related to ecological sustainability and climate change.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“People feel completely anonymous online. They can say whatever they want, do whatever they want, why not go the next step and kill people through the Internet?”

Source : Interview with Tony Farinella, 411mania.com. February 8, 2013.