"What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass."

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Source : Referring to the Catholic Emancipation Act (1829), in H. Dunckley 'Lord Melbourne' (1890) ch. 9

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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“Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear.”
“Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.”
“I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.”
“There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”
“I'm not about saving franchises.”
“In times like these, we need each other. We must bond together in spirit and in service.”
“Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.”
“I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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