even life QUOTES

1 " Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. "

― Guillaume Apollinaire

2 " Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself. "

3 " There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.”
“When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker "

― The Next Generation (season 1 epis. 7: Justice)

4 " I'll be a son of a bitch," Patrick said.Aidan could barely make his eyes move, forcing them from the papers onto him. " What?" “I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before." " Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. " I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't. "

5 " I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before." " Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. " I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't. "

6 " It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting. "