#sand

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.


George Eliot


#come #golden #gone #know #life

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.


Queen Elizabeth II


#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.


Jeff Foxworthy


#doll #dolls #four #got #just

Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do. I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you. All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me. The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace


Cassandra Clare


#city-of-fallen-angels #city-of-glass #clary-fray #herondale #jace-lightwood

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.


Jean Paul


#clearer #escaped #hourglass #life #more

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.


W. C. Fields


#drinking #easy #i #now #off

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.


Harvey Fierstein


#always #few #friendships #save #therapy

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.


Milton Friedman


#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.


Thomas Friedman


#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.


Galileo Galilei


#humble #individual #questions #reasoning #science