God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
– Walter de la Mare
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- If you want to have a well-ordered church, then you have to become well-ordered yourself. – Sunday Adelaja
- Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. – Walter de la Mare
- It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. – Walter de la Mare
- Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark. – Walter de la Mare
- Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat’s out into what’s in. – Walter de la Mare
- The time’s gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy’s all very well but after all it’s justice that clinches the bargain. – Walter de la Mare
- Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there’s plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford. – Walter de la Mare
- Once a man strays out of the common herd, he’s more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. – Walter de la Mare
- Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn’t work. – Orrin Woodward
- Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams. – Iris Murdoch
- Blow by blow a giant is knocked down. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow. – Alexandra Bracken
- No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being. – Johnnie Dent Jr
- when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him. – Rachel Higginson
- The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment. – Tony Samara
- And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake! – Nina George
- True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently. – Debasish Mridha
- The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. – John Patrick Hickey
- The earth’s orbit didn’t slow down. The world didn’t stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees. – BR Collins
- O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly! – Kobayashi Issa
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly. – Gypsy Rose Lee
- Peace can happen in 24 hours….just like war can happen in 24 hours. – Sari Nusseibeh
- Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours. – Amit Kalantri
- Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? – Jay Samit
- Each meditation should last hours – three, four, six hours. – Samael Aun Weor
- A writer’s working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn’t. – Edna Ferber
- By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
- Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours. – Pulkit Patel
- I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard. – Caroline George
- What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. – Abhijit Naskar
- All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God – Sunday Adelaja
- Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans. – Santosh Kalwar
- Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place. – Joe Blow
- If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness. – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
- Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory. – John Mark Green
- A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible can cure – AN Knight
- …You won’t age? I promise you this – your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they’ll bleed… – John Geddes