"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."

-- Aeschylus

#Literature Quotes #Want Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.”
“So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.”

Source : Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
“I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.”

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by by G. M. Gilbert, p. 120, 1995.
“I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.”
“Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.”
“I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.”
“I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.”
“Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.”

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