"Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him."

-- Brother Lawrence

#Desire Quotes #Employment Quotes #Knowing God Quotes

“But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.”
“Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.”

Source : Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet
“Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.”
“If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.”
“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
“It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.”
“If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.”

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.52, Del Rey

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