"But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see."

-- Gregory Maguire

#Eye Quotes #Home Quotes #Bird Quotes

“There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.”

Source : The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.
“Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.”
“I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.”

Source : Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com
“I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.”

Source : John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.51, Boston : J.R. Osgood
“If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.”
“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.”
“People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.”
“I get mad when I'm upset, so to prevent myself from doing anything stupid, I force myself to sleep on whatever issue I'm upset about. Almost always, when I've woken up, I feel much better.”

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