"We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine."

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Helen Fisher

#Animal Quotes #Rhinos Quotes #Horns Quotes

“I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.”

Source : "Robert Duvall, Still Living 'In The Potential'". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.
“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”
“Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.”
“It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.”
“We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.97, Wendy Lamb Books
“You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.”
“It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my father's eyes, all through gentle strokes from his palette. The artist made me look alive when I felt lonely and grim inside. That's the way this man saw me. I decided then that that's what I wanted to do”
“To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.”

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