"Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished."

-- Elsa Maxwell

#Party Quotes #Aging Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.”
“He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.577
“I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.”
“I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it.”
“The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.”
“One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.”
“Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.”

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