"Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing."

-- Ilka Chase

#Political Quotes #Dry Quotes #Intellect Quotes

“The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.”
“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.”
“Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.”
“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.”
“The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.”

Source : William Wetmore Story (1863). “Poems ...”, p.233
“Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.”

Source : Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004
“Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.”

Source : Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.9, Moody Publishers
“As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.”

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