“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.” ThinkingMenFirstsHumansHeartNightGuyLinesWonderFireDoorsSeaWallDrawsBuiltCaves Author:Tana French
“Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.” HeartSpiritChanceTomorrowFutureBuiltIdealsPremonition Author:Tupac Shakur
“We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.” MenHeartAgeCitiesVisionSkyMountainBuiltStonesIronSwingsTowersSkyscraperTelegraphStone Age Book:Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People Source: Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People
“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.” IfsWorldLoveHeartMayRealPassionSexLove IsTalkingStrangeTruth IsBuiltCleanSizeAffectionIceConvenienceTabooReal ThingsImmensityStrange World Author:Jeanette Winterson
“For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.” HeartReasonGreatnessGeniusBuiltEnormousHuntersCartsHares Author:Kenneth Patchen