Clamorous Reed Quotes & Sayings

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset'). — Mary Beard

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. — Luis Barragan

The point of the essay is to change things. — Edward Tufte

So I got to thinking that perhaps that's what money is: a crystallization - or, rather, a homogenization - of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros. Money multiplies your time. It also expands your agency and broadens the number of things you can do accordingly. Big-time lottery winners haven't won ten million dollars - they've won ten thousand person-years of time to do pretty much anything they want anywhere on Earth. Windfalls are like the crystal meth version of time and free will. — Douglas Coupland

I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it. — Mark Wahlberg

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room. — John Oliver

If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion
and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas. — Alain De Botton

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Touching," he said. "I want to touch you. Hold you. I want to sit right next to you, even when there are other options."
She took a deep breath. She felt like she owed it to him to keep talking. To at least reciprocate this conversation. "I want to touch you, too."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah," she said.
"What kind of touching?" he asked.
"Did you already give the operator your credit card number? — Rainbow Rowell

Let God make you fully you. Rejoice in your God-given temperament and use it for God's purposes. This point cannot be emphasized enough. We must be authentic. If we try to be someone we are not, people will see it instantly. — Adam S. McHugh

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish. — Eddie Marsan

One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs when people pull out of the whole selectivity issue. Becoming celibate - obviously you couldn't be less selective that that. Yes, selection is always in the background. But it's not always there in the foreground. If you don't understand that, you're missing a lot. — Robert Neelly Bellah

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid. — William C. Brown