Amielle Zay Quotes & Sayings

Endurance is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that. — Kris Allen

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers. — William Hazlitt

Frightening media messages ... pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives. — Michael Medved

The church is called to embody the boundless love of God by being a community of radical welcome to all God's children. — Alexia Salvatierra

The teacher was asking her students what their parents did for a living, and Timmy stood up and said, "My daddy's a doctor and my mommy's a doctor too." And little Sarah stood up and said, "My mommy's an engineer and my daddy's an accountant." And then little Billy stands up and says, "My mommy's a writer and my daddy plays the piano in a whorehouse." The teacher was horrified and later she called Billy's father, and said, "Why would you ever tell your child a thing like that?" And the father said, "Well, actually I'm a defense lawyer. But how do you explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old? — Garrison Keillor

I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes. — Stephan Pastis

What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it? — Thomas Merton

You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities. — K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna"

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. — Henry David Thoreau

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Is she always like this?"

"Like what? A sociopathic shouka? Not always, if you can believe it. Is she always damn good at what she does? Yes. Always. — E.J. Fisch

As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others. — Chris Matakas