"I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit."

-- Zero Mostel

#Nature Quotes #Angel Quotes #Plant Quotes

“The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.”
“The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.”

Source : Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage
“American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.”
“I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.”
“There is no better therapy than understanding.”
“Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.”

Source : Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.80, Courier Corporation
“I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.”
“Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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