"O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee."

-- Walt Whitman

#Summer Quotes #Land Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.”
“Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.”
“Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.”
“All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press
“You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.”
“I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.”
“No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.”

Source : Thomas Adams (1861). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.51
“How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies ...”

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