Alblasserdam Quotes & Sayings

I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon. — Gautama Buddha

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not. — Bill Budge

Nation moves slower than market. — Toba Beta

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. — Martha Beck

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. — James Bryant Conant

Evangelicals have been distinctive in featuring the crisis conversion. But what is essential to Christianity is the whole life committed to God, from the beginning of faith until death. — Mark A. Noll

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor. — Darren Shahlavi

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste. — Bill Watterson

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating. — Doug Stanhope

It's called the Magnus effect," he said. — Cassandra Clare

Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall. — Brian D. McLaren

And then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence ... — Annie Lamott

She repainted the house to resonate year round with a summertime oasis in floral colors from the backyard garden - her ceremonial grounds - keeping her in her roots of greenness. — Jazz Feylynn