Barrrrrd Quotes & Sayings

Given how I feel right now, I can only assume that my giving you the same bullshit platitudes earlier didn't help you, either. — Chloe Neill

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you. — Reb Anderson

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. — Eric Bogosian

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong. — Amartya Sen

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them ... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older. — Oscar Wilde

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian . [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing. — Wolfgang Pauli

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been. — Zig Ziglar

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels. — Tobias Wolff

I was proud of myself coming down that back-nine — Graeme McDowell

We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it. — Charles Eisenstein

For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty. — Federico Mangahas

The introductory statement for Paul's famous paragraph on marriage in Ephesians is verse 21: "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ."1 In English, this is usually rendered as a separate sentence, but that hides from readers an important point that Paul is making. In the Greek text, verse 21 is the last clause in the long previous sentence in which Paul describes several marks of a person who is "filled with the Spirit." The last mark of Spirit fullness is in this last clause: It is a loss of pride and self-will that leads a person to humbly serve others. From this Spirit-empowered submission of verse 21, Paul moves to the duties of wives and husbands. — Timothy J. Keller

Every German child learns to speak English in school. — Cornelia Funke

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors — Curtis Mayfield