“But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.” IfsHas BeensDoneOpportunityExistenceFateRegretMadnessSeriesDenyArroganceSoleRemorseCould Have BeenTwistedMissed OpportunityOppurtunity Author:Oriana Fallaci
“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.” IfsKnowsWritingMeanHas BeensNamesIndividualPracticeCenturyStyleObjectsPeriodsPursueIndividualismSoleImitationConformConcealedEccentricityPseudoIndividual Style Author:Laura Riding
“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.” MenHas BeensTwoHandsLinesFeetMiddleEqualDistanceFingersHeightSoleCrownsStraight LinesTwo HandsMiddle Finger Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)