"I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences."

-- Irving Kristol

#Years Quotes #Important Quotes #Action Quotes

“I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.”
“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine”
“I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.”
“You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.”
“There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.”
“If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.”
“Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.”

Source : Edward Bouverie Pusey (1853). “Parochial sermons”, p.160
“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.”

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