Blessed Sunday Short Quotes & Sayings

I feel like there are fifty ways it's my fault. I fantasized. I took the big pill and the small pill, stuffed myself with substances to make being out in the world with people my own age a little easier. To lessen the space between me and everyone else. I was hungry to be seen. But I also know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way. — Lena Dunham

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it. — Michael Palmer

The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation. — Piers Corbyn

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. — John Barton

Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another. — Lord Chesterfield

Frenchman: Germans with good food. — Fran Lebowitz

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed. — Arthur Helps

We shouldn't have tried to create new symbols," he said. We should've realized we weren't supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren't supposed to stir up curiosity about God. We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive. What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a warning that institutions endure, that symbols endure when their meaning is lost, that there is no summa of all attainable knowledge.
"Admission" of C.E.T. Chairman Toure Bomoko, in "Appendix II: The Religion of Dune — Frank Herbert

Things ... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is. — Elizabeth Scott

I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well. — John Lasseter

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. — Stanley Clarke