"People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire"

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Henri Nouwen

#Kissing Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.”
“I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!”
“I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.”
“I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!”
“Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance.”

Source : "Paul Scholes earns plaudits from football's elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.
“To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.”

Source : Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.86, UNM Press
“So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy ... for all people." ... That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.”

Source : Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

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