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“Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.”
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“We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.”
Source : Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.5, Delta
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“If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.”
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“Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.”
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“Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child's arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be.”
Source : James Vila Blake (1893). “More Than Kin: a Book of Kindness ...”
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“It is utterly inappropriate for the president Donald Trump to be weighing in the design and acquisitions process of carrier ships at this level. Had a Democratic president done this kind of micromanagement, all the more so in public, Republican defense wonks would have been apoplectic. Instead ... crickets.”
Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com
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“The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.”
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“Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.”