Chtorran Quotes & Sayings

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. — Francis Bacon

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. — Mitch McConnell

Compassion can be learned through example — Renae A. Sauter

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them. — Napoleon Hill

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. — Oscar Wilde

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people ... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. — Robert McAfee Brown

It occurs to me that the man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently. — Jack Vance

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say. — Calvin Miller

on hold. Calbrain emailed to say Lucy's parents had no objection to the interview, for one important reason. Jerome's — Carole Pitt

She even smells like sin, like some exotic lotus. — George R R Martin

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life. — James Hillman

I know your face by touch when it's dark, I know the profile of your sleeping face, the sound of you sleeping. — Ann Hood

But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things that must be done at once, but running out all the same, leaving an emptiness, a dry ditch in its wake. — Bess Tefft