quotes about Seattle

“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”

“We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.”

“A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.”

“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”

Source : Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

“It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.”

“There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.”

Source : "From high earner to highbrow" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2000.

“The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.”

“Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.”