"All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not."

-- James Elkins

#Hurt Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Littles Quotes

“As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.”

Source : "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.
“Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.”
“When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.”
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
“And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.”
“...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.”
“I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.”
“In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.”

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