Brinnande Busken Quotes & Sayings

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find. — Fulton J. Sheen

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it. — Sean Penn

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. — Emily Mortimer

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is! — Seth Grahame-Smith

If keeping me off your dick wasn't punishment, what was it?"
... "Foreplay."
... "We've had six years of that. Do we really need more?"
Dallas grinned. — Kit Rocha

If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do ... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. — George S. Patton Jr.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate. — Boyd Holbrook

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you. — Margaret Atwood

He's got uh throne in de seat of his pants. — Zora Neale Hurston

Noah had seen me scarred and broken, dirty and limp, covered in blood and wearing someone else's smile. He didn't cringe or flinch or hide. He knew who I was, he'd seen what I'd done, and he knew what I would do to him someday too. But he was still here. I would be a fool to let him go, and I was many things - a liar, a criminal, a murderer - but I was not a fool. — Michelle Hodkin

It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life. — Debasish Mridha

We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to touch the vision or experience which prompted them. We then gather up what we have found there and take this quivering almost wordless 'thing' and place it behind the language into which it needs to be translated. And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the 'thing' which is waiting to be articulated. — John Berger