Quotes, интересни поговорки

"Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time. I had learned my best political lesson in college—I just didn’t know it yet.
I took a course in geology because I thought it was the easiest way of fulfilling a science requirement. One day the professor took us out into the Connecticut River Valley to show us the “meander curves” of an old-age river.
I was paying no attention because I had walked up a dirt path and found a big turtle, a giant mud turtle about two feet across, on the muddy embankment of an asphalt road. I was sure it was going to crawl onto the road and be crushed by a car.
So with a lot of difficulty, I picked up this huge snapping turtle and slowly carried it down the road to the river.
Just as I had slipped it into the water and was watching it swim away, my geology professor came up behind me.
“You know,” he said quietly, “that turtle has probably spent a month crawling up the dirt path to lay its eggs in the mud on the side of the road—you have just put it back in the river.”
I felt terrible. I couldn’t believe what I had done, but it was too late.
It took me many more years to realize this parable had taught me the first rule of organizing.
Always ask the turtle."

Gloria Steinem - My Life on the Road

 

Hard times make tough men, easy times make weak men, but hard men make easy times. -Tim Kennedy.

 

"I add to speeches something I learned from historians of religious architecture but left out of my homily: the design of many patriarchal religious buildings resembles the body of a woman. Think about it: there is an outer and inner entrance (labia majora, labia minora) with a vestibule between (an anatomical as well as architectural term) and a vaginal aisle up the center of the church to the altar (the womb) with two curved (ovarian) structures on either side. The altar or womb is where all-male priests confer everlasting life—and who can prove that they don’t?"
Gloria Steinem - My Life on the Road

 

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
- Christopher Hitchens

 

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

-Ernest Hemingway

 

Кога се радуваш, сите се радуваат со тебе, а кога тагуваш, плачеш сам. Така било и така ќе биде. Среќата да ја споделуваме, болката сами да ја боледуваме.

 

“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.” ~ Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

 

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
-Christie Brinkley

 

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

-Allan Turing

 

“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso

 

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

-Captain Ahab (Moby Dick)

 

If you tyrannize people enough, they will hurt themselves to hurt you. - Jordan B. Peterson