Birgen Quotes & Sayings

I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting. — Maggie Stiefvater

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. — Catherine Hall

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them. — Edward T. Hall

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. — Thomas Aquinas

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov

Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality. — M.F. Moonzajer

I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.' — RZA

For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. — David Livingstone

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. — Henry James

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing. — Thomas Bernhard

As you don't have a lover, Miss Darling, I'd like to offer my services. As I believe we've just proven, we're quite compatible. — Lorraine Heath

The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness. — William H. Seward

Did you really think I didn't see that watch? — Manna Francis

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time. — Christopher Anderson