24tons Quotes

#1. The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. In a pit of mud, everyone looks like everyone else. It is the clean who are distinct. In a mob, everyone behaves like everyone else. It is the friend who is distinct.

Anthony Esolen

#3. The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She was quite funny and ribald. She could tell a dirty joke. She played charades with a great sense of fun and vulgarity, and she could be quite bitchy.

Andre Previn

#4. To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,

Michel Odent

#5. My beautiful, my own
My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!

Lord Byron

#6. To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

Maajid Nawaz

#7. I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Erin Merryn

#8. The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

Joschka Fischer

#9. Surprises can be compelling.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#10. For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

Joseph Campbell