"Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Color Quotes

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”
“I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively...writing songs was king”

Source : Interview with Brian Koppelman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.
“The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.”

Source : Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”
“No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.”

Source : Rosalind Miles (2007). “The Child of the Holy Grail: The Third of the Guenevere Novels”, p.25, Crown
“There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.”
“When you're going to school primarily for career purposes, it's more important to focus on which program is best for you. In addition, your success at college depends far more on what you do at the college than at which college you do it: Choosing the right program, then the right advisor, the right courses, the right term papers, the right co-curricular activities, the right fieldwork, the right internships. You can make those choices at any college.”
“Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?”
“The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.”

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