Camenzind Twins Quotes & Sayings

One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What's more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it's all true that they're willing to go the ultimate mile? — Rodney Stark

Teen uk'al k'iinam. Teen uk'al yah. I drink your ache. I drink your pain. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

There's one place that I've always known I wanted to be, and that is on country radio. — Kellie Pickler

A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that "when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has been grasped." For a society surviving to no purpose is one that makes no provision for purposeless behavior - that is, for actions not directly aimed at survival, which fulfill themselves in being done in the present and do not necessarily imply some future reward. — Alan W. Watts

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money. — Stuart Wilde

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore. — Bill O'Reilly

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school. — Peter Hoeg

Every time you love someone, it seems, you're setting yourself up for a fall. — Suzy Vitello

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him. — Peter R. Pouncey

Life is a series of deaths and resurrections, losses and gains, pain and joy. — Torry Martin

There was a man who had a fly in his eye when he looked through the telescope, and he discovered that there was a most incredible dragon in the moon. — G.K. Chesterton

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep.... — Gabriel Chevallier

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings. — Mahavira