"There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility."

-- Robert Graves

#Wind Quotes #Sea Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
“The campaign is over. The people have spoken. And this man [Donald Trump] busted through a blue wall that nobody expected. He won states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, which should have been Hillary Clinton's the whole time. And they were his because of the message, because of the way he's a master communicator and a master connecter.”
“One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
“How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?”
“Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.”
“Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.”

Source : Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.”

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