"maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Country Quotes #Couple Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.”
“I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam
“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”

Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber
“Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.”
“Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.”
“O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle!”

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