"There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression â€œtrick of the lightâ€ applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illuminationâ€ ."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Stars Quotes #Light Quotes #Sight Quotes

“When I was sworn in as a judge of the court of appeals, I took an oath. I put my hand on the Bible and I swore that I would administer justice without respect to persons, that I would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I would carry out my duties under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”

Source : Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006
“We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.”

Source : Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.14, Harper Collins
“An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.”
“We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.”
“People are our greatest asset .”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 07, 2016
“Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.”
“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”
“You have to endure what you can't change.”

Source : Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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