Birnbaum Property Quotes & Sayings

Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered. — Pope Francis

Sometimes I come to hate people because they can't see where I am. I've gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form: my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat. But I'm fucking empty. The person I was just one year ago no longer exists, drifts spinning slowly into the ether somewhere way back there. — David Wojnarowicz

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life. — John Bertram Phillips

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, — Elizabeth Warren

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs. — John W. Gardner

I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it ... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money. — Wade Guyton

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag. — Sarah Wayne Callies

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. — Kurt Von Schleicher

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth. — Barbara Kellerman

If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Learned desperation is at the heart of a praying life. — Paul E. Miller

MY OLD HEART was broken. It'd been replaced with something not of flesh and blood but diamond and immortality. — Pepper Winters

Beer might make a smart man dull, but coffee is worse because it can delude a dull man into thinking he's smart. — Galen Beckett