Shocking Blue Greatest

Famous quotes containing the words shocking, blue and/or greatest:

    “To me it seems a shocking idea. I despise and loathe myself, and yet you thrust self at me from every corner of the church as though I loved and admired it. All religion does nothing but pursue me with self even into the next world.”
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
    Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world—introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably—that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)