Decants 2 Quotes & Sayings

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance. — Ayn Rand

The better you and I know the Word, the better able we are to live out God's plan for our lives. — Wendy Blight

Who wanted a hug you had to ask for? It was like having to ask for an apology. — C.C. Hunter

I'm not interested in fad songs. — Ryan Tedder

I had once been splintered into a million beings and objects. Today I am one, tomorrow I shall splinter again. And thus everything in the world decants and modulates. That day I was on the crest of a wave. I knew that all my surroundings were notes of one and the same harmony, knew - secretly - the source and the inevitable resolution of the sounds assembled for an instant, and the new chord that would be engendered by each of the dispersing notes. My soul's musical ear knew and comprehended everything. — Vladimir Nabokov

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument ... Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege. — C.S. Lewis

And then he has nothing to do. After three weeks-or is it a lifetime?-of ceaseless activity, he has nothing to do. A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction-besides unexpected interludes-has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end. For an hour or so, sitting outside on the landing at the top of the stairs, nursing a coffee, tired, a little relieved, a little worried, he contemplates that full stop. What will the next sentence bring? — Yann Martel

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it. — Martina Hingis

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines. — Tom DeMarco

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a red sunset — Scott Mason