Badell Jeff Quotes & Sayings

What a revelation it was, to discover so many ordinary people in a place together, more conscious of God than of one another: not there to show off their hats or their clothes, but to pray, or at least to fulfill a religious obligation, not a human one. For even those who might have been there for no better motive than that they were obliged to be, were at least free from any of the self-conscious and human constraint which is never absent from a Protestant church where people are definitely gathered together as people, as neighbors, and always have at least half an eye for one another, if not all of both eyes. — Thomas Merton

Who first, upon sensing the backward rush of memory said to signal the moment of death, was able to telegraph this apprehension to the family gathered around? Maybe the original gentleman descended from ape said the equivalent of "falling out of tree" to his common-law ape wife, and she interpreted his words as "just as he left for the dusty world beyond, his whole life passed before his eyes. Then he hit the ground." After all, falling out of the tree is the first and the last thing we do. — Gregory Maguire

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang. — Tom Hiddleston

To the wizard death is merely a belief. — Deepak Chopra

You move your arms a lot when you talk. Just remember we're holding hands, and that makes us look like a couple of idiots out here playing London Bridge. — Dannika Dark

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow. — Bryan Procter

Carved over the portal of the Temple of Isis: 'I am whatever has been, is, or ever will be; and my veil no man hath yet lifted. — Anonymous

Something tickles inside me, an echo from another time when it wasn't all frozen in there. — Gayle Forman

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about. — L. Neil Smith

But Dad looked delighted. My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that? — Gayle Forman

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment. — Marla Gibbs

I've been traveling around the world forever. — Daryl Hall

Leaders use story to author the future. — Robert McKee