"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."

-- Ann Patchett

#Stories Quotes #Facts Quotes #This Life Quotes

“I was a spiritual kid.”
“When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.”
“I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.”
“Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.”
“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p.40), 1895.
“God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.”
“There are a lot of car bombs and roadside bombs, house bombs, even, in this city planted by ISIS. So - but it's going to be a tough fight ahead, and the Iraqi generals expect to take the city back, the city of Ramadi, by mid-January.”
“It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.”

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