Brorsen Bluestems Quotes & Sayings

Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. — Paulo Coelho

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's ... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen. — Vin Scully

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. — Alonzo M. Clark

Guard your heart in your spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is not enough; intelligence is not enough; powerful strength is not enough. You may put everything on one side of the scale, but if you are missing gratitude, you shall lose. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man's total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient device for arranging to meet a friend, or for helping people to do things together, although things of this kind happened long before they were invented. Clocks should not be smashed; they should simply be kept in their place. And they are very much out of place when we try to adapt our biological rhythms of eating, sleeping, evacuation, working, and relaxing to their uniform circular rotation. Our slavery to these mechanical drill masters has gone so far and our whole culture is so involved with it that reform is a forlorn hope; without them civilization would collapse entirely. A less brainy culture would learn to synchronize its body rhythms rather than its clocks. — Alan W. Watts

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That's the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to environment. — Blake Crouch

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth. — Norman Mailer

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now — Wilfred Grenfell

Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want one answer for everything. They're always making laws, as though they could make one law that would be just in all cases. They can't. They never have. I think men get derailed, sometime during their growing up. Instead of settling for what's honest and real and sort of thoughtful, they go off on these quests. They go strutting and crowing, waving their weapons and shouting their battle cries. They say they're seeking something higher, but it always seems to end in pain, doesn't it? — Sheri S. Tepper