Could - Quotes
In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could have never foreseen.
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
What is true is not to be decided by votes; otherwise, we could never come to any truth ever. People would vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don’t have to do anything about them, you just have to believe... Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and to walk alone on a path which nobody has traveled before.
I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes every day, I reckon depression wouldn`t exist anymore.
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.
The lovers don`t always live happily ever after, even when they`ve done what seemed right as well as they could do it.
"Well, I don`t think rocks would be very interesting to God," I said. "They just sit on the ground and erode." "You think that way because you are unable to see the storm of activity at the rock`s molecular level or the level beneath that, and so on. And you are limited by your perception of time. If you watched a rock your entire life it would never look different. But if you were God and could observe the rock over fifteen billion years as though only a second had passed, the rock would be frantic with activity. It would be shrinking and growing and trading matter with its environment. Its molecules would travel the universe and become a partner to amazing things that we could never imagine. By contrast, the odd collection of molecules that make a human being will stay in that arrangement for less time than it takes the universe to blink.
In the past the warring nations
Did not follow any precept:
The strong plundered what he could, and
Everything he looted, he kept.
It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time in which to read them.
One who could return
Such love I bestow,
Faithful in life and death,
Lives not on Earth below.
Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love
thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.