quotes about Past Life

“Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.”

“Let your opponent show you how to defeat him”

“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”

“Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,”

“I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.”

“And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.”

“My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'”

“The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.”

Source : "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.”

“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”