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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.


W. H. Auden
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.


Eden Ahbez
Tags: Being Am I Am
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'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.


Robert Fulghum
Tags: Our Maybe Word
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
Eckhart Tolle
Tags: God Religion You
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
Freida Pinto
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.


George Herbert
Tags: God Take Away
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One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.


George Sand
Tags: Years Day After
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
Daniel Hannan
Tags: Age Like Had
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Elizabeth Caty Stanton
Tags: Work God Freedom
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But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.


Dennis Prager
Tags: God Just Justice
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
William Lyon Phelps
Tags: God Me Man
When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.
Jakob Bohme
Tags: God Will Own
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Norman Mailer
Tags: People Who Only
Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.
Tracy Morgan
Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.
Joe Barton
Tags: God You Way
I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.
George Muller
Tags: Great God Alone
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.


Tom Wolfe
Tags: Will Love Live
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I'm sure I passed on some things that will probably be successful.


Matt Cohler
Tags: Will Things Some