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“Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!”
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“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”
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“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
Source : Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster
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“The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.”
Source : Peter Matthiessen (2000). “The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959-1991”, Vintage
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“Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.”
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“If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.”
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“My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.”
Source : "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992. 
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“I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.”
Source : Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.93, Lulu.com
