"Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice."

-- Noah Porter

#Men Quotes #Practice Quotes #Records Quotes

“Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;”
“Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.”
“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”
“I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental part of our social life. Without tolerance there is no religious liberty, no freedom of conscience and no freedom of thought.”
“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
“If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.”
“I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.”

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