"Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Men Quotes #Matter Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.”
“The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.”
“Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.”
“There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.”
“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.”
“I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.”
“Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.”
“My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.”

Source : William Soutar (2000). “Into a Room: Selected Poems of William Soutar”, Argyll Publishing

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