Bkmat1550ul Quotes & Sayings

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell. — James Young

Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end ... — Thomas Aquinas

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. — Shawn Amos

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress. — Ellen Glasgow

It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not. — Dominique Moceanu

There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face ... what we call the physiognomy. It's all a mathematical and imagined alignment of features. Like, if the nose doesn't stick out too much, the sides are in fashion, if the earlobes aren't too large, if the hair is long ... It's kind of a mirage of generalization. People think of certain faces as beautiful, but, truly, in the final measure, they are not. It's a mathematical equation of zero. "True beauty" comes, of course, of character. Not through how the eyebrows are shaped. So many women that I'm told are beautiful ... hell, it's like looking into a soup bowl. — Charles Bukowski

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please. — Tom Paxton

The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us. — Pope Francis

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace. — Franz Kafka

I didn't stop to think about how my normal had never been so great in the first place."
"And I was a mess. I'd been holding my secrets inside for so long, I had lost all sense of perspective."
"If we can do what we're meant to do, I think we can make them stop. — Linda Gerber

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans. — Yaya Toure

I'm a country boy, I just want a woman to love and something to fix! — J. Dursky

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. — Lord Chesterfield

How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie — Theresa Alan

The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town marveling at the way that the words of the foreign language were freshly gathered fruits and not old and dry. They touched the senses marvelously, new like young beggars who accost you, not yet words but the every things they designate, happily running naked before being clothed again in abstraction. — Georges Limbour