"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."

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Source : William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”

William Allingham

#Song Quotes #Heart Quotes #My Heart Quotes

“I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.”
“To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.”
“I cant begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.”
“We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.”
“You need to find a Â way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.”
“In Godâ€™s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the â€œhiddenâ€ saints, a sort of â€œmiddle class of holinessâ€ to which we can all belong.”
“If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.”
“Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.”

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