"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Hope Quotes #Peace Quotes #Bread Quotes

“Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.”
“Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.”
“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.”
“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”
“You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.”
“To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.”
“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.”
“Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1720). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.”, p.31

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