"You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but Iâ€™ll tell you this, Ned. Thereâ€™s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that youâ€™ve never ever seen before. Like theyâ€™ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?"

-- Melina Marchetta

#Brother Quotes #Son Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I'm probably the toughest (expletive) here. Ain't no question about that with me. I'm the toughest guy here... I'm clean. I mean, I ain't got no marks on me. I don't know nobody else who can say that who came out of any sport. I ain't got no marks on me, so I've got to be the baddest dude I know of.”
“Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.”
“Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy?”

Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.199, Random House
“An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.”
“I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.”
“ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.”

Source : Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen (2011). “Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons
“The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.”

Source : Richard Carlile, Olinthus Gregory (1821). “Observations on "Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion by Olinthus Gregory" L.L.D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich: In a Letter to the Rev. William Wait”, p.54
“The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”

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