"Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Dark Quotes #Events Quotes #Riding Quotes

“The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.”
“Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?”
“All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.”

Source : Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books
“The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers feel. The audience will forgive an incredible amount if you deliver them a powerful emotional experience - and, conversely, if your story is emotionally false, no amount of pyrotechnics will save it.”
“The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.
“Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.”

Source : Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.10, Harper Collins
“The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.”
“Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.”

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