#if

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#beautiful #clothes #considered #course #i

My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#eye #learning #learning process #process #scientific

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#being #being in love #danger #doing #love

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#art #interests #just #life #longer

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bad time #better #bit #design #fashion

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#difference #evil #good #good and evil #religion

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#perseverance #sophie-kinsella #life