"Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made."

-- John Crowley

#Children Quotes #Clever Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!”

Source : "Joey McIntyre Keeping Name of Baby-On-The-Way a Secret" by Missy, celebritybabies.people.com. December 10, 2009.
“What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.”
“When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future. We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior.”
“I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.”
“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.”
“I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.”
“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”
“I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.”

Source : "Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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