#whirl

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#around #distant #everywhere #fact #found

We have been created as recipients. I look at the stars, at the grass, at my fat-faced children, at my fingernails, and I am oppressed by gratitude I have been given a belly so that I might hunger. I have been given hunger so that I might be fed. I look in the atheist's mirror. I look at his faith in the nonexistence of meaning. I look at his preaching and painting. I see nothing but a shit-storm. Why would I walk through that door? Why would I live in your novel? ↗

— N.D. Wilson

#faith

This is poetry, but it is not delicate and fragile, a placid ocean beneath a Bible vese on an inspirational poster. This poetry had testicles. It's rougher than a rodeo. Which is why the cliffs are crowded with spectators ↗

— N.D. Wilson

#inspirational

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #escape #lie #lies #literature

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl. ↗

— Allan Carr

#arts #college #doing #gave #good

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. ↗

— Iris Chang

#being #being honest #daily #daily life #honest

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#men #rational #reap #sow #whirlwind

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind. ↗

— Emma Watson

#always #being #dreamed #fell #film

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#around #because #before #caught #character

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#me #storm #whirlwind