Bostwicks East Hampton Ny Quotes & Sayings

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with. — Rose McGowan

Something now leaves me; something goes from me to meet that figure who is coming, and assures me that I know him before I see who it is. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up, become part of another. As he approaches I become not myself but Neville mixed with somebody - with whom? - with Bernard? Yes, it is Bernard, and it is to Bernard that I shall put the question, Who am I? — Virginia Woolf

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. — Henri Matisse

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream ... he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic. — Barack Obama

There's a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography - a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It's found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That's certainly not what we're after in these pages. No, we're after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the ... — Brian D. McLaren

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

I do not want this cat. No, Nat. Not in a hat. Not in my flat. Not in the store, not anymore, just out the door.
if you please. — Josh Lanyon

Without some framework, some resources, even your secret aspirations just curdled into sentimental bullshit. — Jonathan Dee

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. — Tony Campolo

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! — Michael Caine

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. — Jonathan Swift

Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere. — Naomi Klein

Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention. — George Santayana