"Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way."

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Source : Shirley Ann Grau (2012). “The Condor Passes”, p.7, Open Road Media

Shirley Ann Grau

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The Body thinks it has an agenda that is important. And the Mind imagines that its agenda is vital to your survival. But the older you get the more you realize that it is the Soul's agenda, and only the Soul's agenda, that matters.”
“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
“The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.”
“I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.”
“When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.”
“Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”
“I think it would be unfortunate if people in Saudi Arabia or some parts of the world influenced what we speak about in Denmark. [But] it's a fact of globalization, and we must consider it.”
“The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!”

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