46236 Quotes & Sayings

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. — Susan Faludi

To hear Him, to know Him, and to understand the wonder of His love - one must trust Him completely. — Beth Wiseman

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. — Jewel

Some Hindus have an elephant to show.
No one here has ever seen an elephant.
They bring it at night to a dark room.
One by one, we go in the dark and come out
saying how we experience the animal.
One of us happens to touch the trunk.
A water-pipe kind of creature.
Another, the ear. A strong, always moving
back and forth, fan-animal. Another, the leg.
I find it still, like a column on a temple.
Another touches the curve back.
A leathery throne. Another, the cleverest,
feels the tusk. A rounded sword made of porcelain.
He is proud of his description.
Each of us touches one place
and understands the whole in that way.
The palm and the fingers feeling in the dark
are how the senses explore the reality of the elephant.
If each of us held a candle there,
and if we went in together, we could see it. — Rumi

Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. — Elvis Costello

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. — Erma Bombeck

I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I love you Contessa, Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket. Now is the time for madness. — C.D. Reiss

A man needs a woman to take care of him so she can make him strong enough for her to lean on. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. — Fulton J. Sheen