Acomodando En Quotes & Sayings

These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul. — Eleesha

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history. — Joe Jamail

The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see it for the hundredth time we call it, in the hideous and blasphemous phrase of Wordsworth, "the light of common day." We are inclined to increase our claims. We are inclined to demand six suns, to demand a blue sun, to demand a green sun. Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things. — G.K. Chesterton

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true. — Ziad Doueiri

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face. — Herta Muller

The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. — Evelyn Waugh

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat. — Mark Twain

Saturday, May 22d.---It is now Saturday night, and I must prepare for the holy Sabbath. My Bible and Confession of Faith are my traveling companions, and precious friends have they been to me. I bless God for that glorious summary of Christian doctrine contained in our noble standards. It has cheered my soul in many a dark hour, and sustained me in many a desponding moment. I love to read it, and ponder carefully each proof text as I pass along. — James Henley Thornwell

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. — John Ratzenberger

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
He taught and first he followed it himself. — Geoffrey Chaucer

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. — Eric Hoffer

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation. — Catherine Booth