"Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?"

-- Jim Butcher

#Real Quotes #Men Quotes #Order Quotes

“Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.”
“Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.”

Source : "Taliban vows vengeance". www.wired.com. September 14, 2001.
“We should pray to be reconciled with God in everything so we can get grace to react in a godly way. Then you will be content with the way God does things for you in your life. If you are satisfied, you are satisfied, regardless of whether you are healthy, free, and active, or are limited in some way.”
“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,--feel it, and hate in silence.”

Source : "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.
“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”

Source : James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.”
“The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.”
“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.”

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