"They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world."

-- Ivo Andric

#Blood Quotes #Saws Quotes #World Quotes

“Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!”
“Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?”
“And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.”
“Most of us assume we are seeing the world the way it really is.”

Source : Ned Herrmann (1996). “The Whole Brain Business Book”, McGraw Hill Professional
“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

Source : Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.”
“Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.”
“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.”

Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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