"She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious."

-- John Crowley

#Dream Quotes #Wings Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.”

Source : "Books for giving: science" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.
“The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”
“I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.”
“Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing”
“Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.”
“I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.”
“The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...”
“This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.”

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