#ture

The future and eternity are two entirely different things. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#different things #entirely #eternity #future #things

The sound of thunder, the smell of rain. The earth giving birth to another season. Nature's labor pains...beautiful. ↗

— Carol Morgan

#rain #beauty

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. ↗

— David duChemin

#photography #photography-quotes #picture #poverty #beauty

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#cook #generous #i #i think #man

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#blood #bones #end #everything #great

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded. ↗

— John Corbett

#because #father #future #going #grounded

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#destruction #good #help #literature #much

War is the cemetery of futures promised. ↗

— John Cory

#futures #promised #war