#visions

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I see visions. Anyone would." "But you don't believe in them?" Doc asked hopefully. "I don't find it a matter for belief or disbelief," the seer said. "You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks into the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself everytime that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? Don't you see visions?" "No," said Doc. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#nature #visions #beauty

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#confronting #divisions #greatest #i #islam

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street. ↗

— Howard Finster

#here #i #i came #light #like

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #divisions #opposed #political #race

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#charity #consists #dreaming #dreams #life

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

Our visions begin with our desires. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#desires #our #visions

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could