"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Blessing Quotes #Vacation Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Jan 06, 2013
“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like) I had three writing sessions set up. The first two canceled on me. I was kind of pissed off at that point. So I just went back to my hotel room and started writing. And even though I've been to L.A. and experienced a lot of things, at the end of the day I just start to feel like I'm playing acoustically at the first bar I ever played at.”
“if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.”
“Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.”
“States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.163, Columbia University Press
“But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.”

Source : 1980 Journal entry, 4 Jan.
“Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.”

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