quotes about Morbidity

“Art has more ego to it than what I do.”

Source : "Eva Zeisel's Century", www.wired.com. December 12, 2006.

“For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.”

“I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.”

“If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.”

“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”

“I don't wear jewelry, as a man.”

“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”

“If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?”

“The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.”

“The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff - guilt, anger - this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.”

Source : FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Apr 15, 2016