Brideshead Revisited Venice Quotes & Sayings

People who come along all the time and they ask, 'What's wrong with this?' In other words, they're always wondering how close to the edge they can getand still be a Christian. Listen, if any of you are like that, just go back to the world. Stop testing the edges. If it's the world you want, go back to it! And if you want to love Christ, then love Christ, and love Him with all your heart, and follow Him, and stop playing this idiotic game where you want to see how close to the edge you can live. — Tim Conway

All colors of people mingle in the souks and squares. But they do not merge. — Hilary Mantel

Mapmaker mapmaker
make me a map
one to one scale,
without a single gap.
Map every rock,
every thought, every tree
and erase all the territory. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?"
"That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice. — Sigmund Brouwer

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things. — Guy Davenport

There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. — Paul Kalanithi

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s! — Elisha Cuthbert

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective. — Marion Nestle

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved. — Kirsten Gillibrand

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental. — Jesse Eisenberg

By changing your perception, awareness, and actions you create yourself again and again. — Debasish Mridha

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success — Eckhart Tolle

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle

My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles. — Natalie Morales

The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.
I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all. — Lynda Barry