"In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Air Quotes #Age Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.”
“The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.”
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
“Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.”

Source : Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.31, Cambridge University Press
“The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.”
“I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.”
“Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.”

Source : William Styron (1957). “Lie Down in Darkness: A Novel”
“I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.”

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