"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

-- Ovid

#Fear Quotes #Mind Quotes #Ease Quotes

“nonviolence first changes the individual.”
“My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.”
“I don't have any expectations.”
“Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.”
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”

Source : "Fictional character: Karen Blixen". "Out of Africa", www.imdb.com. 1985.
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”

Source : John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.”

Source : Erin Mckean (2011). “The Secret Lives of Dresses”, p.45, Hachette UK
“writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.”

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