#weeping

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #god #him #patient #really

One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#grief #hurt-feelings #loss #lost-innocence #sadness

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#canada #day #ever #federal #federal government

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. ↗

— Du Fu

#asks #clouds #drafting #happens #often

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.' ↗

— Marie Osmond

#before #book #brought #came #child

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually - from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #humor #inspirational #the-doctor #time-travel

Love is sweeping the country. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#love #love is #sweeping

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ↗

— Shirley Conran

#couches #housekeeping #inspirational #rest #resting