"I think that's the job of the writer, right? Not to introduce new ideas or feelings, but to name the ones we know most intimately but are afraid of speaking, or don't have the words. That's what I find most powerful anyway."

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Melissa Febos

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
“...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.”
“Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.”
“Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?”
“Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.”

Source : "Gregg Harper: I 'hunt' democrats". Interview with Anne Schroeder Mullins, www.politico.com. October 20, 2009.
“We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.”
“Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.”

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