"It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky."

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Source : Muriel Spark (2012). “Territorial Rights: A Novel”, p.46, Open Road Media

Muriel Spark

#Dirty Quotes #Rain Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.”
“Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.”
“On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.”
“One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.”
“Worship is admiration becoming adoration.”
“Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.”
“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.”

Source : Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “The Time Travelers: Volume One”, p.147, Laurel Leaf
“On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?”

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