"come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain"

-- W. S. Merwin

#Rain Quotes #Silence Quotes #Shade Quotes

“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
“Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.”
“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.251, Penguin
“Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.”
“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”
“Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.”
“Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.”

Source : "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.
“I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.”

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