"I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Noise Quotes #Fellowship Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.”
“Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.”

Source : Carol Kent (1990). “Secret passions of the Christian woman”, NavPress Publishing Group
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”

Source : Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.239, Routledge
“Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.”
“There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would seem that a woman's success in any particular field would prove her fitness for that work, without regard to theories to the contrary.”
“I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.”
“The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.”
“...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.”

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