Standage Reclining Quotes

#1. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the wounded male ego. It's as though Hollywood thinks I've got some choice in whether I like him or not. As if. I can't change who I am.

Kirsty Eagar

#2. Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

Sri Chinmoy

#3. He must hate me, or he would have let me die.

George R R Martin

#4. I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.

Dov Davidoff

#5. People will protect what they love.

Jean-Michel Cousteau

#6. The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance," said Caroline.

Anthony Trollope

#7. In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Larry Niven

#8. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.

William Gurnall

#9. Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

Marcel Duchamp

#10. What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Honore De Balzac

#11. It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle.

#12. I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

Studs Terkel

#13. There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Margaret Oliphant