Quotes & Sayings About Awesome Uncles

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. — Khaled Hosseini

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time. — Anais Nin

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper. — Chang-rae Lee

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut. — Max Lucado

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose. — Michael Bloomberg

Men don't respond to words. They respond to no contact. — Sherry Argov

Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless of the form it takes. — Helen Shucman

Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level. — Mark Rutte

All prayer is responding to God. In all cases God is the initiator - "hearing" always precedes asking. God comes to us first or we would never reach out to him.92 Yet all prayers are not alike or equally effective in relating to God. The clearer our understanding of who God is, the better our prayers. Instinctive prayer is like an emergency flare in reaction to a general sense of God's reality. Prayer as a spiritual gift is a genuine, personal conversation in reply to God's specific, verbal revelation. — Timothy J. Keller

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms. — Philip Russell

the song of the dead
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums — Antonio Cisneros

I also want to eat grass and ride a bear ... but that could be the drugs talking. — Chelsea Fine

Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision. — Jacob Liberman

In his] mind, there was no contradiction between "I will jump into my grave laughing," appropriate for the end of the war, and "I shall gladly hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth," which now, under vastly different circumstances, fulfilled exactly the same function of giving him a lift. — Hannah Arendt