"There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along...."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Loneliness Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.”
“There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.”
“Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.”
“Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.”
“As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands, like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.”

Source : "Brad Goreski Is Taking Care of Business". Interview with Kelsey Garcia, www.elle.com. March 13, 2013.
“I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.”
“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.”
“The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.”

Source : Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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