"Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment."

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Source : Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.127, Zondervan

Philip Gulley

#Pain Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.”
“I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.”
“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”
“Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.”
“A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.”
“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”
“People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.”

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