"The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God."

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Source : Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

Charles Simeon

#Heart Quotes #Broken Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.”
“If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.”
“It goes Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day. Is that fair to anyone who's alone? These are all days you gotta be with someone. And if you didn't get around to killing yourself at Christmas or New Year's, boom! There's Valentine's Day. I think there should be one more after Valentine's Day just called, 'Who could love you?'”
“I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.”
“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”

Source : "The Tokyo-Montana Express". Book by Richard Brautigan, 1979.
“There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.”

Source : "Fashion and creativity". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“Tourism is very important for Egypt as fewer tourists means fewer jobs! Of course there are positives and negatives from tourism... Tourism is a type of use, if not properly planned and managed it can destroy the very resources that brings the tourists. No reefs equals no diving, it's a simple equation. Tourism development has to be appropriate.”
“I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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