"When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear."

-- J. D. Pardo

#Firsts Quotes #Belief Quotes #Reactions Quotes

“A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press
“In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided the pleasure of touching so many people from so many lands as have the Executioners.”
“we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”
“It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing
“I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.”
“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.”

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