"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."

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John Owen

#Elephants Quotes #Swim Quotes #Wade Quotes

“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.”
“Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.”

Source : Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159
“I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.”
“It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there...”
“Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.”
“I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.”
“Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.”

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