Ataraxy Phoenix Quotes & Sayings

Philippians 3:17-19 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things — Bible. New International Version

She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each other; for those, who were charmed by her loveliness, spoke with enthusiasm of her talents; and others, who admired her playful imagination, declared, that her personal graces were unrivalled. — Ann Radcliffe

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write. — Stanley Hauerwas

Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way. — Carew Papritz

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae. — Peter Hook

He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them. — Charles Babbage

If you can imagine a thing,
then it has already existed,
somewhere, somewhen, somehow. — Toba Beta

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity. — Clement Greenberg

I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle. — Ruth Rendell

They were engineers. They knew about Murphy. They weren't about to upset no pixie. — Terry Pratchett

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. — Adam Gopnik

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. — Stanislaus I

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)? — Richard Baxter

Leaving the air crystal and sweet and the dusty, used leaves sparkling. The lake surface was a diamond-dusted, dancing indigo ... — Anne Rivers Siddons