“What is a woman's place in this modern world?" Jasnah Kholin's words read. "I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Brandon Sanderson
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Quote for Today: Plato
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. -- Plato, The Laws
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was … Continue reading Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
Quote for Today: Caroline Ghosn
Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster. --Caroline Ghosn Public Domain Image: Soda Bubbles Macro via wikipedia
Quote for Today: Ronan Farrow
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things. --Ronan Farrow Image © Ron Frazier with CCLicense: Monument to Francesc Pujols, Salvador Dali, Teatro Museo Salvador Dali, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ronan Farrow
Quote for Today: Bangambiki Habyarimana
What if a man could write everything that came into his mind. You could find there gems of wisdom, depth of utter despair, heights of the most cherished hopes, killing fields where we slaughter our enemies, moments of faith and moments of doubts, dark chambers where we commit infidelity against our partners, counting the goods … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bangambiki Habyarimana
Quote for Today: Jonathan Sacks
The extraordinary thing we now know, thanks to Crick and Watson’s discovery of DNA and the decoding of the human and other genomes, is that all life, everything, all the three million species of life and plant life-all have the same source. We all come from a single source. Everything that lives has its genetic … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jonathan Sacks
Quote for Today: Geoff Dyer
We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Geoff Dyer
Quote for Today:Norton Juster
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full … Continue reading Quote for Today:Norton Juster
Quote for Today: Philip Pullman
Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition … Continue reading Quote for Today: Philip Pullman