“We do not feel justified giving up what has come to the industry like a gift from heaven on the possibility that a hazard may be involved in it.”
-President of Standard Oil, Frank Howard, on the wake-up that the anti-knocking compound Ethyl could be an enormous public health risk.
”Could it be that the sharp and the blunt side have shifted this time”
-Erland Oye on Fireworks. Context: desire.
”Would things be easier if there was a right way? Honey, there is no right way”
-Hozier
”There are symbolic dreams - dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities - realities that symbolize a dream.”
-Wild Sheep Chase, p. 67, Haruki Murakami
”We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.”
-Immanuel Kant
”Those who control the past control the future.”
-George Orwell
”Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.”
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
”How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
”As long as poverty, injustice, and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.”
-Nelson Mandela
”Sometimes after we have put Samudhra to bed, old friends visit. We have spent these last nine years finding them and then drawing them around us. We learned early that we shared this rollicking city with other exiles from other ways and other states of disquiet.”
-Island of a Thousand Mirrors
”There is a certain new ferocity in her eyes now. A certain new thing that was not there before. I recognize it as scar tissue. When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.”
-Island of a Thousand Mirrors
”It is only in absence that the true weight of love is felt.”
-Island of a Thousand Mirrors
”Oh you can judge the whole world by the sparkle that you think it lacks. Yes you can stare into the abyss but it’s starin’ right back.”
-Dawes
”It’s really hard to hate anyone. When you know what they’ve lived through. And once they’ve given you a taste.”
-Dawes