"Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters."

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Source : Edward Bloor (2007). “Crusader”, p.361, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Edward Bloor

#Country Quotes #Journey Quotes #Church Quotes

“I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
“You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.
“I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.
“Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.”
“The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.”
“While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.”
“She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .”
“A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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