"You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms..."

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Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (1985). “You will hear thunder: Akhmatova, poems”, Ohio Univ Pr

Anna Akhmatova

#Thinking Quotes #Storm Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics”
“There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?”
“Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.”
“Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.”
“Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.”
“Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.”
“The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people who toilet trained her and spanked him when he was naughty. We may have become Masters of the Universe, accustomed to giving life and taking it away, casually ordering people into battle or out of their jobs . . . and yet we may still dirty our diapers at the sound of our mommy's whimper or our daddy's growl.”
“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

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