Argiles Du Quotes & Sayings

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully. — Valerie Harper

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face. — Karen Marie Moning

Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they had it then to come alive for us and in us and to make us more alive within ourselves. That, I suppose, is the final mystery as well as the final power of words: That not even across great distances of time and space do they ever lose their capacity for becoming incarnate. And when these words tell of virtue and nobility, when they move closer to that truth and gentleness of spirit by which we become fully human, the reading of them is sacramental; and a library is as holy a place as any temple is holy because through the words which are treasured in it the Word itself becomes flesh again and again and dwells among us and within us, full of grace and truth.
Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an essay called The Speaking and Writing of Words. — Frederick Buechner

One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there. — Brian Andreas

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive ... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Morning, my fellow Hokies! Your favorite class president here, welcoming you to another new year filled with change, excitement, and discovery ...
So far, I'd say she has it about right. — Rachel Harris

The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world. — Chris Matakas

My instinct told me I'd be silly to fall in love with him, you know women are very unfortunate, so often when they fall in love they cease to be lovable, and I made up my mind to be on my guard. — W. Somerset Maugham

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history — Carl T. Rowan

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain. — Suze Orman

The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow. — James K. Morrow

That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set. — Alan Powell

I can't believe you gave me twenty minutes notice to meet your family! I could kill you right now! — Jamie McGuire

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather. — Alexei Sayle