quotes about Cupboards

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

“We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.”

“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”

“The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery”

“I won't admit or deny anything...makes me more interesting.”

“I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.”

“I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.”

Source : "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. March 3, 2011.

“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”

“Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.”

“Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming”