Castorino Espresso Quotes & Sayings

At the heart of all temptations, as we see here, is the act of pushing God aside because we perceive him as secondary, if not actually superfluous and annoying, in comparison with all the apparently far more urgent matters that fill our lives. Constructing a world by our own lights, without reference to God, building on our own foundation; refusing to acknowledge the reality of anything beyond the political and material, while setting God aside as an illusion - that is the temptation that threatens us in many varied forms. Moral — Pope Benedict XVI

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I — Eric Metaxas

It makes people feel good to build somethin big. Makes people feel like they're makin progress, I reckon.
Progress toward what?
It doesn't matter. Up higher or down deeper or out farther. As long as you're movin, it don't matter much where you're goin or what's chasin you. That's why they call it progress. It keeps goin of it's own accord. — Alden Bell

The blue, mosquitoey night pushes in from the hotel windows. — Jennifer Egan

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room. — Noelle Scaggs

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives. — Brian Tracy

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see. — Cristina Nehring

The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest. — Donald Miller

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. — Quentin Crisp

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana

His body was tubby but his arms apparently couldn't understand that, for they were long and scrawny. From his brow to an inch below his eyes, his nose turned up; from there on, down. His short upper lip slanted sharply toward his tonsils, which had the effect of making his chinlessness positively jut.
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The bartender was fascinated by the way the teardrops proceeded down Biddiver's amazing nose. One drop would dash almost halfway, and then hesitate, daunted by the hump. Then it would be joined by another teardrop, and the two, merging, would surmount the obstacle and slip down to hang glittering over the disappearing lip until a sob came along to shake them off. — Theodore Sturgeon

How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight? — Ernest Bramah

What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world. — Gregory Maguire