"The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people."

-- Jojo Moyes

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Might Quotes

“There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.”
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
“A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.”
“This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.”
“I wouldn't take nothin' but a Ford: F-O-R-D, period. Ain't nothin' like a Ford. I wouldn't drive a Chevrolet 'cause I can't spell it.”
“Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!”

Source : Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing
“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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