Chestertons International Quotes & Sayings

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum. — Jane Siberry

Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade. — Richard Dawkins

Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways. — Amit Ray

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. — Robert Pinsky

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. — Richard Rohr

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses
those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. — Richard Ford

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it. — John Caudwell

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape. — Janet Macunovich

But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name. — Pocahontas

He'd been too late for Sin. He'd been too weak for Lou. He'd been too young for his dad. They'd all lived and loved and fallen, one by one, leaving deeper imprints on his soul each time. He couldn't change their deaths nor could he change that Sin was now in the same category as Lou and his father. People who he would have done anything for, lost to him in situations where that 'anything' had not been enough. — Ais

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. — Alan Keyes

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language. — Roger Ascham

something important is broken — Marko Kloos