"All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sunâ€™s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but itâ€™s still one light."

-- Rumi

#Song Quotes #Wall Quotes #Light Quotes

“The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'”
“Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.”

Source : Velimir Khlebnikov, Charlotte Douglas (1990). “The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian”, p.205, Harvard University Press
“I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.”
“Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.”

Source : Ken Livingstone (1987). “If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it”, HarperCollins
“My new 9mm didnâ€™t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At first Iâ€™d decided it was okay to wear as long as I shot only at supernatural bad guys who were already shooting at me. Lately, Iâ€™d had to broaden that definition to anytime my life was in danger. I was currently leaning toward a slightly more comprehensive rule somewhere between proactive self-defense and the-bastards-had-it-coming, which, if I survived long enough, I intended to blame on my deranged partner rubbing off on me.”
“I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.”
“Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.”
“It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.”

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