Bitik Bazz Quotes & Sayings

I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed indignation, because they stood for the big sin of Platonism: the reduction of all reality to the level of pure abstraction, as if concrete, individual substances had no essential reality of their own, but were only shadows of some remote, universal, ideal essence filed away in a big card-index somewhere in heaven, while the demi-urges milled around the Logos piping their excitement in high, fluted, English intellectual tones. — Thomas Merton

Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform. — Cyril Connolly

The feeling to bury one's head in a ditch can be an overwhelming one, but Annwyl fought it all the same. — G.A. Aiken

It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior. — Ben Witherington III

-How does someone win?"
-We're seventeen-year-olds with our own island. We're already winners. — Adi Alsaid

We owe ourselves our lives. — Teju Cole

Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible. — Erika Swyler

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste. — Helen Caldicott

Avoiding other people was his new goal in life. — James Dashner

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response. — Rob Bell

Hale dropped down and lay in front of me, wrapping an arm around my shoulder. Don't worry, I've got you. — Kiera Cass