"That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Blue Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.”
“Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.”
“Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.”
“I don't know how not to get the flu.”
“I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.”
“I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.”
“To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.”

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