"And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?"

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Summer Quotes #Eye Quotes #Winter Quotes

“The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.”

Source : "4 survival tips start-ups can learn from Bear Grylls" by Lucy Liddiard, www.businesscomparison.com. 2016.
“White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.”

Source : Daniel Mason (2003). “The Piano Tuner: A Novel”, p.44, Vintage
“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you donâ€™t do that, the country would be in ruins.”
“Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.”
“An author's first duty is to let down his country.”
“I shall have more to say when I am dead.”

Source : "John Brown" l. 199 (1920)
“One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesnâ€™t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.”
“The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.”

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