Aboulafia Law Quotes & Sayings

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music. — Stephen King

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight. — Rodney Dangerfield

If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love. — Adam Hamilton

Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all. — Stanley Hauerwas

Poets don't run out of material the way novelists do because they don't depend on material in the same way. — Julian Barnes

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you. — Madonna Ciccone

My whole life is my work. — Chris Cleave

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate. — Richard H. Shultz Jr.

Oh, I remember how beautiful you were. You didn't have any hair. You were such a bald little booger, I thought I was going to have to save up to buy you a toupee. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after! — Mercedes McCambridge

The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach. — Brande Roderick

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices. — Chuck Palahniuk

I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named. — Claudia Rankine