Arparon Quotes & Sayings

The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature. — James Carroll

Tradition Three "The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking." THIS Tradition is packed with meaning. For A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so. You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out. No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications - even your crimes - we still can't deny you A.A. We don't want to keep you out. We aren't a bit afraid you'll harm us, never mind how twisted or violent you may be. We just want to be sure that you get the same great chance for sobriety that we've had. So you're an A.A. member the minute you declare yourself. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. — Christian Lous Lange

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations. — Tim Blake Nelson

Goes black. Agony. I breathe in and out, waiting for the white-hot agony to pass. Dear God, please. It is all I can do not to scream, — Nicholas Sparks

Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family. — Sugar Ray Leonard

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number. — Jamie Lee Curtis

One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

You can have, what wish for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. — Jack Nance

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them. — Randy Harrison

...the value of a work of art is set by desire: who wants to own it and how badly — Hannah Mary Rothschild