Cathriona White Mark Quotes & Sayings

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once. — N. T. Wright

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart. — Oscar Isaac

Katz had read extensively in popular sociobiology, and his understanding of the depressive personality type and its seemingly perverse persistence in the human gene pool was that depression was successful adaptation to ceaseless pain and hardship. Pessimism, feelings of worthlessness and lack of entitlement, inability to derive satisfaction from pleasure, a tormenting awareness of the world's general crappiness: for Katz Jewish paternal forebears, who'd been driven from shtetl to shtetl by implacable anti-Semites, as for the old Angles and Saxons on his mother's side, who'd labored to grow rye and barley in the poor soils and short summers of northern Europe, feeling bad all the time and expecting the worse had been natural ways of equilibriating themselves with the lousiness of their circumstances. Few things gratified depressives, after all, more than really bad news. This obviously wasn't an optimal way to live, but it had its evolutionary advantages. — Jonathan Franzen

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn. — Christina Baker Kline

More than once he'd wandered into a brothel and left only when they threw him out with an emptied account, a sore groin, and a prostate as dry as the Sahara desert. — James S.A. Corey

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. — Thomas Kuhn

Urgency and despair don't get along well. — N.K. Jemisin

Heaven is always there for us; but this life ... this life is a gift to us. — C. JoyBell C.

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold. — Frederica Mathewes-Green