Clacks Hub Quotes & Sayings

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down - for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite. — Toni Sorenson

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that. — Ray Charles

He exclaims, "Happy is the one not scandalized by me." There will be throughout Christian history a tendency of Christians themselves to choose Jesus as an alternative scandal, that is, a tendency to lose themselves and merge into the mob of persecutors. For St. Paul, consequently, the Cross is the scandal par excellence. I would observe that the symbolism of the traditional cross, the crossing of the two branches, renders visible the internal contradiction of the scandal. The — Rene Girard

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process. — T Jay Taylor

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy — Theodor Adorno

It has taken my whole life thus far to see how being brave enough to hold on to a question, brave enough to never stop looking for answers, and brave enough to take action even when I didn't know the right answer, was as brave as I needed to be to succeed and to succeed with love. — Andrea T. Goeglein

I resigned myself to looking for that face that I clearly recalled - until the day when I couldn't. It happened so suddenly. — Melanie Benjamin

Information is a difference that makes a difference. — Gregory Bateson

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. — Neil Gaiman

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl. — Homer

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years. — Shigeru Yoshida

There was nothing there but shadows, and I was a shadow. And then I heard your voice. — Clare

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. — Nathanael Greene