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There have been heroes here, and saints and martyrs and I want you to know that. Because that is the truth even if no one remembers it. To look at the lace, it's just a cluster of houses strung along a few roads, and a little row of brick buildings with stores in them, and a grain elevator and a water tower with Gilead written on its side, and the post office and the schools and the playing fields and the old train station, which is pretty well gone to weeds now. But what must Galilee have looks like? You can't tell so much from the appearance of a place. — Marilynne Robinson

When he expressed his feelings for her - always here like this, while he touched her or made love to her - he used words of possession and passion. He told her they belonged to each other, that she was his, that he was her mate. And he made love to her like a starving man, as if he couldn't get enough of her. — Christine Warren

Good music is wine turned to sound — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed. — Gustave Flaubert

When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.' — Cristiano Da Matta

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me. — Nick McDonell

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence. — Jack Whitehall

My granny always says Women are like angels, when someone breaks our wings we continue to fly around on our broomsticks because we're flexible like that — Sophie Monroe

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home. — Alan Jackson

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes. — Susan Cain

We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what's rising in its place, the Conceptual Age. — Daniel H. Pink

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them. — Boyd K. Packer

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible. — Quentin Tarantino