"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."

-- Christopher Columbus

#Morning Quotes #Night Quotes #Islands Quotes

“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”
“A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.”
“The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014
“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”

Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”
“If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.”
“It's my job to beat whoever the UFC puts in front of me. I don't really care who it is. Whoever they put in front of me, I will just try to go out and beat them.”
“As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.”
“Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God.”

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