"Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers"

-- Tim Winton

#Lasts Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Awake Quotes

“He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook
“Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.”
“Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been clustered around the nexus of knowledge, communication, and human action.”
“Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.”
“But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.”
“She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girlsâ€™ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.”
“Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.”
“The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.”

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