"I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see."

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Source : Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

Peggy Noonan

#Thinking Quotes #Miracle Quotes #World Quotes

“I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his chest. I heard him inhale my scent. His lips grazed my temple. Here we were, alone, in my kitchen, holding each other while breakfast cooled on the table. This was some sort of alternate universe, with a different Kate, who wasn't hunted like a wild animal and who could have these sorts of things. "What's up?" I asked softly. "Just making sure you know you're caught.”
“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”

Source : "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".
“Art rides in on pleasure.”
“When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.”
“People love to talk but hate to listen.”
“Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.”
“We do not write as we want, but as we can.”
“There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.”

Source : John Hay, “Distichs”

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