"People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like."

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Anne Ursu

#Doors Quotes #People Quotes #Snow Quotes

“Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”
“I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.”
“For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.”
“If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.”

Source : "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.
“I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.”
“The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.”
“It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.”
“In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.”

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