"I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people."

-- Yusuf Idris

#Running Quotes #Jail Quotes #People Quotes

“It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.”

Source : "Jane Asher: this much I know". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”
“The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!”
“With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.”
“...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.”

Source : Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc
“If you get married, you become vulnerable.”
“Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.”

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.
“Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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