"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me."

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Source : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 1 (1751)

Thomas Gray

#Wind Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Tolls Quotes

“What is is and what isn't ain't.”
“For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in”

Source : Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.”
“I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.”
“Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate.. and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange, and examine.”
“But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.”

Source : Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk
“To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.”

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