"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination"

-- Sydney Smith

#Loyalty Quotes #Imagination Quotes #People Quotes

“Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.”
“It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.”
“Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Kenneth Dewhurst (1966). “Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689: His Life and Original Writings”
“The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.”

Source : Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press
“I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.”
“Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador

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