Augustinus Bader Quotes & Sayings

My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records. — Johnny Griffin

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind. — William Shakespeare

My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done ... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself. — Rich Mullins

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There are things that are right in this world and things that are wrong, and it's up to people to choose. — Kim Askew

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t's the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation! — David

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was. — Sarah Dessen

I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home. — Becki Newton

The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship. — Steven Pinker

Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten. — Jamie Ford

When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met. — Katee Sackhoff

I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art. — William Trevor

The church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security. These structures produce the same kind of authoritarian people, with a super defensive stance in their strategies and argumentation.
This is why they understand each other! (Leonardo Boff, p. 178) — Mev Puleo