"We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb."

-- Shane Claiborne

#Rome Quotes #Eagles Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2000). “Roads: Driving America's Great Highways”
“The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.”
“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.”

Source : "Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Book published by Royal Society of Edinburgh, "Theory of the Earth", 1785.
“Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.”
“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”
“Personal evolution has nothing to do with art, it's never. Art is a sine curve: dark and light change permanently, in cumulative radicalism. Art decides what to do. The choice of colors is made by the colors themselves. The evolution of art is the evolution of the future itself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.”
“It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.”

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