"We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen."

-- Jacqueline Carey

#Pay Quotes #Remember Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.”
“I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia
“Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.”
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

Source : In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962
“Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.”
“We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?”
“When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.”

Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.
“It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.”

Source : Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co

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