"The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?"

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Eye Quotes #Shining Quotes #World Quotes

“All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was nowhere else I wanted to go. TV was of no interest. Films were just a fantasy. Yet I was convinced that when we found ourselves in that world of fantasy and sci-fi, it was our classical background and our training that equipped us for that larger-than life-world.”
“You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.”

Source : James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.77, Scholastic UK
“Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.”
“The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com
“Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.”
“It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.”
“Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.”
“Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.”

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