"Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time."

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Source : Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

Frank Waters

#Meaningful Quotes #Time Quotes #Past Quotes

“Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing. Mutual, symmetrical disillusionment; it's a start.”
“I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.”
“I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.”
“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
“I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's mostly writing, and then I just thought, "Well, I might as well stay and get the degree."”
“Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.
“We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.”
“Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.”

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