"Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make."

-- Hannah More

#Nice Quotes #Soul Quotes #Rays Quotes

“Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic. They're much more oriented towards the past and towards the country of origin. That can make the process of becoming a part of the new country much more fraught for them.”
“Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football”
“I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.”

Source : "Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 93), 1922.
“The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.”
“And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin
“I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.”
“The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.”
“It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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