Bershanshaw Quotes & Sayings

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. — Karl Barth

If you're waiting for the world to get it,
if you're waiting for the world, forget it. I'm not waiting for the world. — Adam Franklin

My mouth went dry. I imagined Annabeth invoking hieroglyphs at Camp Half-Blood, blowing up chariots on the racetrack, hurling giant blue fists during capture the flag. 'So my girlfriend is a magician now, like, permanently? Because she was scary enough before. — Rick Riordan

It's a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in ... because that's what's familiar. That's the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they're just continuing the pattern. Until this traditionalist mindset is shaken loose, you would likely try from reflex to impose notions onto nonmonogamy that are not only untenable in the new context but spel sudden and messy doom even in situations that otherwise could be worked out. — Anthony D. Ravenscroft

None of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself. — Hamza Yusuf

It seems odd that a place so remarkably agrarian could have produced the prophecies and theologies upon which the entire world now relies. — Brandon Sanderson

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture. — Teresa Heinz

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering. — Aeschylus

Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?" — Mark Mothersbaugh

I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can't see today. Patti, I don't know anything. — Patti Smith

Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it ... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace. — John Paul Caponigro

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's? — Umberto Eco

Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear
As one with treasure laden, hemm'd with thieves;
Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear,
Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves. — William Shakespeare