Barkann Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important. — Joel Osteen

A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister. — Ruhollah Khomeini

Roarke pointed a finger at Galahad who'd begun his crouch toward the berries. The cat turned his head toward the screen as if suddenly enraptured by the financial new. — J.D. Robb

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public. — Nina Totenberg

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Force of Life

Defining the intention
of our heart's desire
we discover
the Force of Life — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again. — Noah Hawley

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. — S.I. Hayakawa

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not. — Sylvia Plath

My hailstorm tore them limb from limb. — Mary Weber

Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own. — Michael J. Sullivan