Black Wine Rack Quotes & Sayings

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning ... they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion. — Michel De Montaigne

The desires of the heart ... are as crooked as a corkscrew. — Robert Stone

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke. — Evel Knievel

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie

The wind seems to be blowing through the gaps in the conversation like the rushing of empty space. — Michael Cisco

All thought is energy. All things are in motion. All time is now. — Neale Donald Walsch

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief. — William James

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. — George Bernard Shaw

What made Jim truly mystical was his ability to live fully conscious of how, every day, a bit more of the sacred becomes desecrated. Still, Jim's awareness of how much had been lost didn't stop him from appreciating what remained. — Robert Jensen

You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore. — Tara Janzen

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. — Garrison Keillor

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable - in other words, in an art of life. — Margaret Anderson