"I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace."

-- Knut Hamsun

#Life And Death Quotes #Umbrella Quotes #Rhyme Quotes

“Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.”

Source : Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press
“You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.”
“The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.”

Source : Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”
“You are everything good and straight and fine and trueâ€”and I see that so clearly now, in the way youâ€™ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. Youâ€™ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. Thatâ€™s one thing Iâ€™ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.”
“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.”
“If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”
“The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.”

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