Brideshead Revisited Julia Quotes & Sayings

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great. — Dave Barry

Twenty talks, hundred thoughts, deep into the soul
Another soul penetrates. — Upasana Banerjee

One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow
And man's dark soul. — Robinson Jeffers

The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support. — Pope Benedict XVI

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter. — Edvard Munch

There is a tendency to class such men with toreadors and gamblers. People extol their contempt for death. But I would not give a fig for anybody's contempt for death. If its roots are not sunk deep in an acceptance of responsibility, this contempt for death is the sign either of an impoverished soul or of youthful extravagance. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God. — Carolyn Custis James

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen. — Henry David Thoreau

Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay — Neil Gaiman

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu

Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground. — Nancy Pelosi

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually! — Gary Zukav

She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; what was his; what was promised. — Shewanda Pugh

Lives do not have plots, only biographies do. — Guy Davenport