Thomasine Clopton Quotes & Sayings

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? — Albert Einstein

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Luxen were like fucking happy, happy rainbows. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

People are fascinating, aren't they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick? — Kate Morton

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good. — Amy Tan

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. — Claudia Black

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor. — Anthony Marra

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. — Aldous Huxley

Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois emotions: his sufferings great and small, his nostalgias, his religious or political pre-occupations, and, if he were English, his pipe-smoking reveries. On occasions, individual genius allowed a more subtle emanation to envelope the human nucleus of the poem - as we find in Baudelaire for example. But this splendour was a by-product. All the poet wished was to be a human being.
When he writes, I believe today's poet simply wishes to be a poet. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

What I like about film is it explores imperfections. — Mia Wasikowska

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious. — Orhan Pamuk