"When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough."

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Source : Nelson Algren (2010). “A Walk On The Wild Side”, p.132, Canongate Books

Nelson Algren

#Cutting Quotes #Car Quotes #House Quotes

“When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.”
“Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.222, Penguin
“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesnâ€™t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesnâ€™t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
“My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2008). “Knights of the Hill Country”, p.182, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?”
“The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.”

Source : R. T. Kendall (2014). “Holy Fire”, p.162, Charisma Media
“And to get that much talent in the showâ€”and to keep it constant and consistentâ€”I think is a remarkable feat.”

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