#looms

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#against #below #blooms #break #broad

God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman. ↗

— David B. Lentz

#bostoniad #david-b-lentz #mother-tongue #beauty

And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veil'd Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies; And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs, And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam Of her own dying smile instead of eyes, Came in slow pomp; the moving pomp might seem Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#schiltz #shelley #splendors-and-glooms #family

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? ↗

— Emily Bronte

#blooms #constantly #dark #friendship #holly

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bless #cheer #eat #enjoy #friends

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. ↗

— David Hockney

#day #draw #every #every day #flowers

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#fan #grown #had #i #large

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. ↗

— Bill Frist

#congress #forward #instead #looms #policies

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest. ↗

— John Philips

#blooms #boughs #future #harvest #rudiments

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair