"Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers."

-- Nick Flynn

#Lying Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Church Quotes

“Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.”
“I often say of my background: "That and a Metrocard will get me downtown." Honestly, I think the upshot of my training in acting and writing is that I've been trained to be adventurous. There are so many moments in conservatory where I was encouraged to push the envelope and color outside the lines. I think that sense of bravery flavors what I do. It allows me to take chances that I might not otherwise take.”
“Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.”
“Love is more than a one way reflection, stop using sex as a weapon.”
“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”

Source : Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.
“In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books
“He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.”
“I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.”

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