Alfardan Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. — Eliza Farnham

Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'll guard the lady's tent."
Dirk nodded. "I'm certain that you'll protect Lady Shona better than anyone else."
Keegan was a bit ashamed that he'd allowed a lass to ensnare his attention so completely that it was obvious to the chief... and likely everyone else. But, what could he do about it? He'd already tried banishing her from his mind. It didn't work. The more he told himself not to think of her, the more he thought of her. — Vonda Sinclair

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways. — Deana Carter

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed ... — Frederick Buechner

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business. — Terence McKenna

Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one — Rumi

The best thing about Valentine's Day is that if you don't have a lover, you badly remember to get one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them. — Uzo Aduba