"I have always thought that if the city cannot come to the country, than the country must come to the city."

-- Jens Jensen

#Country Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Any desire to grow is following the flow of love”
“Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.”
“We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.”
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.”
“I encourage everyone out there to get involved.”
“Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.43, David C Cook
“There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.”

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