"We are creatures of story."

-- Helen Dunmore

#Stories Quotes #Creatures Quotes

“If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.”
“People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.”
“God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.”
“Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.10, Open Road Media
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”
“When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.”
“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.”

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