Christinger Tomer Quotes & Sayings

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors! — Andre Gide

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward painted a picture of an almost fascist America where Arab and Muslim citizens were being daily terrorized by pogroms, these being instigated by men like Paul Wolfowitz who had talked of 'ending' the regimes that sheltered Al Quaeda. Again, I could hardly credit that these sentences were being produced by a cultured person, let alone printed by a civilized publication. — Christopher Hitchens

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan

But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have. — Alexander Maksik

Every soul becomes gold
when touched by the Beloved. — Rumi

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ — Tom Clancy

I tell you, say the rich,
the poor are naught
but dirty wind
welling in air-shafts
over the cinders
and droppings of
the past, their
voices thick
with grease
and ordure,
sewer-greed
to corrode the ear
with the horrors
of the past
and the voids
of new stupidity.
One could drown
waiting for the poor
to make
one fine distinction.
Yes, destroy us
say the rich
and you lose
the roots
of God. — Norman Mailer

My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus. — Johnny Hunt

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control. — Andrew J. West

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. — Stephen Jay Gould