"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Forgiveness Quotes #Vices Quotes #May Quotes

“Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”
“You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!”
“I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.”
“Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.”

Source : "Accelerometrics: The Art of Motion Sensing". www.fullpower.com. July 10, 2008.
“Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.”
“The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works. Those philosophers took a stand on all sorts of questions which nowadays we would classify as questions of psychology, and their views about psychological questions shaped their views about epistemology, as well they should have.”
“I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.”

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