"He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?"

-- George Orwell

#Summer Quotes #Lying Quotes #Past Quotes

“Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 81, 1895.
“After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.”
“I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.”
“Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)”
“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.”
“Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.”
“The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.”
“A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.”

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