"Youâ€™re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youâ€™re alone, so you think itâ€™s a vast, magnificent panorama. You havenâ€™t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of Godâ€™s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep"

-- Alfred de Musset

#Believe Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”

Source : Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.285, Theatre Communications Group
“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!”

Source : "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.
“There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.”

Source : 1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.
“It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”
“Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... .”
“As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.”
“French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.”
“A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying,”

Source : "Jesse Ventura refuses to see 'American Sniper,' says Chris Kyle is no hero". www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2015.

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