Chavous Racing Quotes & Sayings

Most often the presence of such gifts of the Spirit creates a desire for their exercise. By them a man is drawn to the Word, to Christ, to men. For this reason a deep and sincere desire to enter the ministry is the commonest evidence of the Lord's calling. It is no sure criterion, however, for the gifts and desire are not always joined. — Edmund P. Clowney

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. — Donna Tartt

In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance. — Edward Hirsch

-The timekiller?!
-Who is the killer?
-The time?
-Or the killer?
The answer is like a king in a pathless position on the chessboard. The answer is an eternel looser. It's fate is sealed up in the testament of Hades. The killer is mortal and he can't testify forever, but the time is biased, one-sided, partial, because it is timeless and a constant winner.
So, the circle is closed.
The game is over-checkmate! — Hristo Krstevski

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. — Maya Angelou

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. — John Selden

Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work. — Roberto Bolano

Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back. — Peter Heller

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized. — Cheryl Strayed

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player. — Jean Houston

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time. — Steven Wright

Healing is to be in the light of our own consciousness. Healing is an inner light, which exist as a natural radiance around a person. This inner light is in itself a healing force beyond words. This inner light disperses darkness, like when you lit a candle in a dark room and the darkness disappears by itself. This inner light exudes a subtle influence through its mere presence. The more the light in our own consciousness is lit, the more it creates a subtle effect in the world. — Swami Dhyan Giten

A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies. — Mona Simpson