"Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires."

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Source : Os Guinness (2002). “Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin”, Baker Books

Os Guinness

#Desire Quotes #Conform Quotes

“Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.”
“Push on and faith will catch up with you.”
“Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.”
“A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.”
“There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.”

Source : "In Full: Cameron Victory Speech". news.bbc.co.uk. December 06, 2005.
“I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.”
“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”

Source : 'Ode upon Eckington Bridge'

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