Quotes
Authors
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accursÃ©d Ghost!"

-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#Children Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.”
“I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.”
“They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.”

Source : James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna Loy (1987). “Myrna Loy: being and becoming”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.”
“Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and our bodies are very sensitive tuneable receivers for energies that we do not yet know about in our science but that each one of us can detect under the proper circumstances and the proper state of mind. We can tune our nervous systems and bodies to receive these energies. We can also tune our brains and bodies to transmit these energies.”
“I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
“When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.”
“Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.”

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