"We are minor in everything but our passions."

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Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

Elizabeth Bowen

#Passion Quotes #Literature Quotes #Minors Quotes

“What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?”
“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
“Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.”

Source : "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
“All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.”
“In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.
“Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.”

Source : "The Complete Novels".
“At the end of the tour last year, I was completely fried. I felt my soul was begging me to give it a release. Two long trips to Costa Rica and to Iceland I've made were the best things I could have ever done for myself and you see it with the songs I wrote before I left and the songs I wrote after - there are two different Kips in there.”

Source : Source: people.com
“I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.”

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