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“You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”

People Ifs World Ideas Feelings Felt Sides Wonder Worry Standing Always Believe Misplaced

Author:Jay McInerney

“We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.”

Ifs Men Mind Stills Would Be Lasts Remember Lying Sides Christ Powerful Wonder Lord Danger Bears Catholic Arise Features Good Man Deceived Last Day Bad Man Being Deceived Anti Christ

Book:Devotion to the Church

Source: Devotion to the Church

“Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”

Sides Emotion Wonder Humility Destruction Lust Panacea

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.”

Men Has Beens Country Spirit Sides Natural Walks Cities Wonder Protect Destruction Destroyed Charm Wilderness Splendor Sustenance Salvage

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.”

Ifs Mind Sides Wonder Baseball Bats Playing Baseball

Book:Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.”

People Ifs Way Feels Kind Sometimes Together Certain Sides Wonder Sun Tree Rocks Wind Standing My Family Folks Blow Snow Hardest Welcome Hills Folds Hail Standing Alone

Author:Nancy E. Turner

“It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even as a little kid and there was a lot of wonder there, and openness to the many sides of life.”

Way Looks Littles I Can Hard Shows Kids Felt Sides Wonder Manifestation Openness Little Kid

Author:George Saunders

“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?”

“I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.”

Thinking Moments Sides Interesting Wonder Magic Creating Practicals Most Interesting Interesting Things Splendor Automation

Author:Genevieve Bell

“Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.”

May Two Joy Sides Wonder Promise Despair Capacity Coins Spinning Restoration Two Sides

Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

“Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.”

Character Lying Sides Acting Wonder Honest Findings Pretending

Author:Angelina Jolie