Ba Thien Quotes & Sayings

And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here. — Wendell Berry

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. — Albert Camus

I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much. — Tracy Kidder

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state. — Virgil Goode

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist. — Jennifer Lawrence

I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter. — James Joyce

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me? — George R R Martin

But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more than a stale copy, and this was the trouble with Ba's elegant calligraphy, his patient life, it was frozen in time. — Madeleine Thien

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent. — Jess Walter

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. — Thomas Merton

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters. — Bella Thorne

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes. — Edward Gibbon

Pop art is about liking things. — Andy Warhol