"Human life must be some form of mistake."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Life Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Form Quotes

“As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
“I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.”
“Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.”
“Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy lines of separation of faith, to talk together, to study together, to pray together, and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.”
“Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.”

Source : Song: In The Name Of Love, Album: Simple Things, 1977
“Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.”

Source : David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.”

Source : Colin Cotterill (2014). “The Coroner's Lunch”, p.79, Open Road Media
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