Bergauf Bergab Quotes & Sayings

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done. — S. Truett Cathy

I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort. — Neil Gaiman

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all. — Edna Buchanan

Emerence understood nothing of this. She rejected it. Like the leader of some primitive tribe she flew her standard - a sequinned evening dress - against the banner of the Lamb of God. The old woman opposed the church with an almost sixteenth-century fanaticism; not only the priesthood, but God himself and all the biblical characters, with the single exception of Joseph, whom she revered for his occupation: her own father had been a carpenter. — Magda Szabo

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. — Thomas Paine

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life. — Max Heindel

The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Desire is the putting of my will into God's concern. It's not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I'm willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That's willingness all right. But God doesn't want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires. — Jim Elliot

Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones. — Elizabeth Gilbert