"The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life."

-- Clive James

#Food Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary People Quotes

“My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.”
“The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethovenâ€™s â€œNinth Symphonyâ€, Van Goghâ€™s â€œSunflowersâ€, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.”
“My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.”
“Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.”
“When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.”
“The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well in early Reformed thought. Moreover - and importantly for our purposes - this view was not regarded as an aberration but as a legitimate position that could be taken within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. But that means that the Five Points aren't the non-negotiable conceptual core of Calvinism after all.”
“Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,”

Source : "The Real Daphne Guinness" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 11, 2011.
“We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.”

Source : "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,

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