"There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Order Quotes #Errors Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base,”
“We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.”
“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”

Source : FaceBook post by Oliver Stone from Apr 27, 2012
“Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.”
“The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.”
“When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.”
“Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!”
“I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?”

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