Barked Sharply Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God. — Johannes Tauler

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture ... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium. — Sarah Charlesworth

be neither unduly credulous nor wholly disbelieving for the Indies would have gone undiscovered if no one believed Columbus — Richard Stanyhurst

Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is - in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet.
We move with eyes shut and ears stopped; we smash walls where doors are waiting to open to the touch; we grope for ladders, forgetting that we have wings; we pray as if God were deaf and blind, as if He were in a space. No wonder the angels in our midst are unrecognizable.
One day it will be pleasant to remember these things. — Henry Miller

Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. — Victor Hugo

I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door") — Mrs. Oliphant