"Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at itâ€“how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We arenâ€™t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home."

-- Sheldon Vanauken

#Powerful Quotes #Home Quotes #Suggestions Quotes

“Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.”
“I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.”
“The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.”
“Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”
“No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.”
“My longest love affair: with a book.”
“Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?”

Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.355, Hachette UK
“Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.”

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