Cipreste Italiano Quotes & Sayings

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves. — C.S. Lewis

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time. — Soren Kierkegaard

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun. — Louis C.K.

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated! — Martin Freeman

Her father had always told her that the things people hate most in others are likely the things they hate in themselves. — Anna Jarzab

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace. — Jennie Finch

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything. — Sheila Heti

All of the patterns we've discussed of course exist in four dimensions rather than three, and the metaphors about braids, cables and trees, shouldn't be taken too literally. The key point is simply that you can be an unchanging pattern in spacetime-the specific details of this pattern are less important for the points we're making. This pattern is part of the mathematical structure that is our Universe, and the relations between different parts of the pattern are encoded in mathematical equations. As we saw in Chapter 8, Everett's quantum mechanics endows you with an even more interesting-but no less mathematical-structure, since a single you (the tree trunk) can split into many branches, each feeling that they're the one and only you
we'll return to this later. — Max Tegmark

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you? — Cressida Cowell

When there is no distraction, there is clarity. — Lorii Myers

For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors. — Marcus Samuelsson

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life! — Pope John Paul II

The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.2 Who — Yuval Noah Harari

Not everyone has a shiny, perfect kind of love. Sometimes it's messy, complicated, and painful. It doesn't lessen the depth of the feelings involved though. — Sydney Landon

Martian Congressional Republic Navy. — James S.A. Corey