#Sweet Quotes #Spring Quotes #Flower Quotes
“Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?†“I have spies everywhere.†I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. “She had tea with Mahon’s wife.†Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery.”
“The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.”
“So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person.”
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
Source : "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.
“No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.”
“Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.”
“We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.”
Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan
“There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.”
Bat Masterson Columnist
Billy the Kid
Calamity Jane Scouting
Doc Holliday Gunfighter
Gary Cooper Film actor
John Huston Film director
Lillie Langtry Actress
William Wyler Film director
Wyatt Earp Gambler
