"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing"

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Source : Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.133, Oberon Books

Christopher Fry

#Wings Quotes #Understanding Quotes #May Quotes

“Risk means that more things could happen that will happen”
“The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.”
“Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.”
“I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.”
“I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.”
“Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.”

Source : André Bazin (2004). “What Is Cinema?”, p.12, Univ of California Press
“Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.”
“Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar: Once more your Captain calls to you; Come to his last review!”

Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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