"The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means."

-- Marie Corelli

#Mean Quotes #Style Quotes #Diction Quotes

“Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.”
“The most overrated underrated player in baseball.”
“Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 09, 2014
“A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.”
“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.”
“It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.”

Source : Roy Hession (2016). “The Calvary Road”, p.11, CLC Publications
“However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.”
“We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.”

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