"What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun."

-- Ken Follett

#News Quotes #Nun Quotes

“If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.”
“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press
“One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.”
“A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy.”
“Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world.”
“I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.”
“Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.”
“Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.”

Source : "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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