"I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls."

-- Nicholas Kurti

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Research Quotes

“In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.”
“Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.”

Source : Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK
“No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if this is going to be a document of a multiplicity of my writings, it'll do. It feels like a birthday party or something.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.”
“It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.”

Source : Song: That Voice Again, Album: So
“I'm concerned about people being happy,”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.
“Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.”
“Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.”

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