"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Christmas Quotes #Doors Quotes #Cells Quotes

“Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.”
“There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.”
“I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.”
“The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”
“But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.”

Source : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.114, Penguin
“I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.”
“Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.”
“It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.”

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