"The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own."

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Source : "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.

Lauren Beukes

#War Quotes #Relentless Quotes #Loud Quotes

“I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience...”
“If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be; No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.”

Source : Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”
“This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.”

Source : Marva J. Dawn (2009). “In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life”, p.44, InterVarsity Press
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235
“Who knew heartbreak would be so ***** hot.”
“As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.”

Source : William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.371, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.”

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