"...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet."

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Source : Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

Robert Musil

#Religious Quotes #Feet Quotes #People Quotes

“I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.”
“I don't engage in hypotheticals.”
“I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.”
“Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.”
“I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language.”
“In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.”

Source : Cyndi Lauper (2012). “Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
“The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.”
“...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.”

Source : Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

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