"I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire."

-- Stephen R. Lawhead

#Ocean Quotes #Eye Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?”
“[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.”
“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”
“Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.”
“When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.”

Source : Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.151, Simon and Schuster
“The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.”

Source : "Christ's Tears over Jerusalem". Book by Thomas Nashe, 1593.
“The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.”
“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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