"If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, â€œEnjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.â€"

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Source : Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

Donald Miller

#Sunset Quotes #Mean Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.”
“To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.”
“Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity's flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.211, Courier Corporation
“Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body; it had nothing whatsoever to do with a man's emotions. But if that was the case, why did it ache so?”

Source : "The First Casualty".
“I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.”

Source : David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.94, Broadway Books
“Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.”
“I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.”
“Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.”

Source : Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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