"Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing."

-- Augustus William Hare

#Bird Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Findings Quotes

“But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you loved me the same way...will you tell me that's not true? No, he said after a moment, so softly I could barely hear him. His hand tightened harder on mine. No, I willna tell ye that. Not ever, Claire.”
“If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.”

Source : "Freedom from Religion". The Nation, February 19, 2001.
“I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.”
“In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.”
“For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.”

Source : Max Dupain, Jill White, Matthew Cawood (2000). “Dupain's beaches”
“It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.”
“The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.”
“Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.”

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