"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne"

-- Madame Roland

#Dog Quotes #Men Quotes #Admire Quotes

“I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.”

Source : "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.260, Pan Australia
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

Source : New York Times, February 17, 1957.
“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”
“Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.”
“Itâ€™s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?”
“Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.”

Source : "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh, missioncreep.com.
“Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.”

Source : Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.90, Hachette UK

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