"Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Law Quotes #Long Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“As actors, we need a moment to take a breath and have a moment of slowness.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire”

Source : Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. April 21, 2001.
“It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.”

Source : Walter J. Chantry (1970). “Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic?”, Banner of Truth
“The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the third or the fourth wife and she has no rights inside her home and, on top of that, there is domestic abuse in her house, she is doomed. Under Islamic Sharia law a woman must accept beatings from her husband. Under Islamic Sharia, she must not revolt because she is the third or fourth wife.”
“Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”
“For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.”
“Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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