Hatts17 Quotes

#1. But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

Shweta Ganesh Kumar

#2. I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man ...

William Wordsworth

#3. Growth is betrayal.

John Updike

#4. Watching, I dread my own womanhood, the day when I too will follow along carrying bags of groceries, my mission wherever I go to feed other people who take actual part in life while I am simply the catering staff.

Jennifer Haigh

#5. Our democracy is of no use to those who have not been educated to it. Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

Sadako Ogata

#7. A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bridges

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

Martha Plimpton

#9. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

Gary Larson

#11. If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.

Rupert Murdoch

#12. If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? ... I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and ... toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

George Orwell

#13. I'm yours for ever
for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

Henry James

#14. Theology alone doesn't convine anyone.
Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor
this theology is a testimony. This theology leads to conversion. (Leonardo Boff, p. 169)

Mev Puleo