"By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!"

--

Source : "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 11, 1862.

Henry Dunant

“Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.”
“Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”
“I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!”
“Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.”
“Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.”
“Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning.”
“The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.”

Source : E F Benson (2014). “Mapp and Lucia Omnibus: Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia”, p.43, Random House
“In a perfect world, Joshuaâ€Ÿs vertically gifted murderer wouldâ€Ÿve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly wouldâ€Ÿve announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his godâ€Ÿs country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.”

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