"Itâ€™s lovely to know that the world canâ€™t interfere with the inside of your head."

-- Frank McCourt

#Beautiful Quotes #Lovely Quotes #World Quotes

“My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.”
“Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.”
“When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.”
“For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.”
“The shortest answer is doing.”

Source : George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.162
“Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.”
“If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.”
“Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!”

Source : "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, New York, p. 148, 1957.

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