Barkmann Corner Quotes & Sayings

Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything. — Marianne Williamson

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends? — Horace Walpole

Yet nature turns a dumb face toward us like a cow. When we read its wonders, we wonder whether we haven't written them ourselves. We are in ferment, but our greatness grows like a bubble of froth. We sense that existence itself lacks substance; that it is serious in the wrong sense; that its heaviness is that of wet air. The sublime ... ah, the sublime is far off, though we call for its coming. Yes. Life falls short
it is never what it should be. Rhymes will not rescue it. Days end, and begin again, automatically. Only the clock connects them. Sullen sunshine is followed by pitiless frost, and the consequence is we are a tick or two nearer oblivion, and the alarm for our unwaking. — William H Gass

A coy smile could capture him, but it was finally a hearty laugh that had freed him. — Louise Penny

There's discipline, Mahrree knew, and then there's abuse. The first works, while the second never does. And some people, like Lemuel Thorne, had no idea there was even a difference. — Trish Mercer

People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people. — Donald Trump

Great men are sincere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics, Garrett thought. Like a food fight without the internal logic. — Jack McDonald Burnett

I turn to leave, but as an afterthought I decide to light the various candles that are artfully arranged on the stone bench. Lit candles count as "more," don't they? — E.L. James

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. — James Alison