"A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table."

-- Pico Iyer

#Sweet Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.”
“We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.”
“He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole #2: The Journey”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.
“Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”
“Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.”
“Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, weâ€™ll get it right.”
“Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.”
“War is the Health of the State.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1965). “The world of Randolph Bourne: an anthology edited”

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