"The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope."

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Source : George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.221

George Stillman Hillard

#Hope Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Golden Quotes

“I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages”
“Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.”
“You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.”

Source : Douglas Preston (2009). “Blasphemy”, p.307, Pan Macmillan
“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”

Source : "Fictional character: Willard". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.
“I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.”
“Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.”
“O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.”
“We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.”

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