"The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Country Quotes #Secret Quotes #World Quotes

“It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.”
“Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.”

Source : Marina Warner (1987). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, Picador
“romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.”

Source : Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press
“We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such”
“Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.”
“A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.”
“Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”
“Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.”

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