"Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Girl Quotes #Race Quotes #People Quotes

“People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1999). “Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation”, Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”

Source : "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I. 12,
“Much more than memoir; it's history.”
“Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.”
“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”
“Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.”
“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”
“When we think about our strengths, we are strong. When we think about our weaknesses, we are weak.”

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