"We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.”
“Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2009). “The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance”, p.82, Multnomah
“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge
“A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.”

Source : Thomas Kibble Hervey (1849). “The devil's progress: A poem”, p.27
“All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers . If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.”

Source : Political Register, August 14, 1819.
“What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.”
“There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.”
“Few fears are rational.”

Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.101, Macmillan

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