"I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love."

-- Hadewijch

#Great Love Quotes #Wish Quotes #Noble Quotes

“I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.”
“Make the best of an emergency.”

Source : Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent (2000). “John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist”, p.219, Yale University Press
“In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.”
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.”
“Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.”

Source : Song: Hungry, 2003
“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”

Source : "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.
“The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.”
“Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.”

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