Akarsha Butterfly Soup Quotes & Sayings

I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off. — Steve Erickson

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions. — Woodrow Wilson

After the resurrection, when Jesus gets Peter aside, he doesn't ask him, "Do you believe in me?" He asks, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" And he repeats the question three times. I need to take some quiet time and hear Jesus address me by name and ask me the same question: "(My name), do you love me?" Take it from there. — Ken Untener

My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it. — Marques Brownlee

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. — George Herbert

Once described by Eccentrica Gallumbits as the Best Bang since the Big One, — Douglas Adams

If you have the tendency to repress your anger, you have lost touch with an important part of yourself. Getting angry is a way to gain back that part of yourself by asserting your rights, expressing your displeasure with a situation, and letting others know how you wish to be treated. It can motivate you to make needed changes in a relationship or other areas of your life. Finally it can let others know that you expect to be respected and treated fairly. — Beverly Engel

Wednesday's glory had become Thursday's ashes. — David Pietrusza

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable. — Damian Kulash

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one. — Azar Nafisi

Discernment and detachment (Jurists and apatheia) are two characters of the mature Christian soul. They are not yet the mark of a mystic, but they bear witness that one is traveling the right way to mystical contemplation, and that the stage of beginners is passed. The presence of discernment and detachment is manifested by a spontaneous thirst for what is good - charity, union with the will of God - and an equally spontaneous repugnance for what is evil. The man who has this virtue no longer needs to be exhorted by promises to do what is right, or deterred from evil by threat of punishment. — Thomas Merton

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life ... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent. — Christina Stead