"You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever""

-- Adrian Rogers

#Forever Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Lord Quotes

“People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.”
“It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.”
“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.343, Random House
“Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act."”
“I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. Thereâ€™s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.”
“What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.”
“I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.”

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