"Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well."

-- Joni Eareckson Tada

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.”
“Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.”
“Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!”
“The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.”
“I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced?”

Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.
“It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.”
“When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (2004). “Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.”

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