Showing posts with label Common sense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Common sense. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Rachel Carson

"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our
strength .. "

Rachel Carson (The Sense of Wonder)

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Mary Stewart

"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. "

- Mary Stewart

Friday, June 19, 2009

Desmond Tutu

"My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right."

Desmond Tutu