"Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever."

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C.P. Cavafy

#Wise Quotes #People Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.”
“It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.”
“Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.”
“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”
“If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.”
“But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.18, University of Illinois Press
“Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.”
“Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.”

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