Ball Washer Quotes & Sayings

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise. — Derrick Jensen

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life. — Pope John Paul II

Note for Americans and other city-dwelling life-forms: the rural British, having eschewed central heating as being far too complicated and in any case weakening moral fiber, prefer a system of piling small pieces of wood and lumps of coal, topped by large, wet logs, possibly made of asbestos, into small, smoldering heaps, known as "There's nothing like a roaring open fire is there?" Since none of these ingredients are naturally inclined to burn, underneath all this they apply a small, rectangular, waxy white lump, which burns cheerfully until the weight of the fire puts it out. These little white blocks are called firelighters. No one knows why. — Terry Pratchett

Patience is a virtue and it's also a commitment — Marcelle Hinkson

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid — Dave Barry

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived. — Soren Kierkegaard

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good. — David Price

What is striking about such unmediated juxtapositions, and relevant to the way in which at the end of war opened bodies and verbal issues are placed side by side, is that in most instances the verbal assertion has no source of substantiation other than the body. — Elaine Scarry

Spread your love and fly. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe. — Amish Tripathi

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership. — John Abizaid

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, " ... as lost as a ball in tall grass." — Paul Washer

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock. — Milt Gross

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. — Helen Hayes

We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image - as opposed to a symbol - is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it's a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Everything, it said, was against the travellers, every obstacle imposed alike by man and by nature. A miraculous agreement of the times of departure and arrival, which was impossible, was absolutely necessary to his success. He might, perhaps, reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours, in Europe, where the distances were relatively moderate; but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task? There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow - were not all these against Phileas Fogg? Would he not find himself, when travelling by steamer in winter, at the mercy of the winds and fogs? — Jules Verne

Whoever has said these things is a fool." "Aye, but the words of a fool hold weight with other fools. — Samantha Holt