quotes about Motown

“Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.”

“Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.”

“Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.”

Source : Russell Page (2010). “The Education of a Gardener”, p.45, Random House

“See how time makes all grief decay.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218

“Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”

“All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.”

“Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.”

“Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.”

“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”