"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Angel Quotes #Able Quotes #Endure Quotes

“Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'”
“We should be building great things that don't exist”

Source : "With I/O speech, Larry Page reminds us why Google rules tech" by Michael V. Copeland and Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. May 16, 2013.
“Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.”
“Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.”
“When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.”

Source : "No resisting '1st to Die' / Detective role lures Pollan away from her nest" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. February 16, 2003.
“We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.”
“Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.”

Source : Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt
“Speak politely to an enraged dragon.”

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