"You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."

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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Baseball Quotes #Memories Quotes #Twilight Quotes

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
“I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.”
“The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.”
“...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.”
“Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper”
“When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.276, The Floating Press

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