"I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing."

-- Louise Penny

#Battle Quotes #Talent Quotes

“Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.”

Source : "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
“Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.”
“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”
“But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway... I don't understand that. I mean, if they need logs over there... and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble.”
“Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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