Clapiers Famous Quotes & Sayings

What assurance would be ours if, when we approached the throne of grace, we realized that the Father's heart had been set upon us from the beginning of all things!"[18] — Douglas Van Dorn

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion. — Adeline Yen Mah

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism. — Meir Soloveichik

The thrust here is that Dostoevsky wrote fiction about the stuff that's really important. He wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being-that is, how to be an actual person, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal. — David Foster Wallace

Dying is not dead. — George R R Martin

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher. — Juan Felipe Herrera

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence. — Dan Jones

Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest. — Alexander Murdoch Mackay

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game. — Nick Kroll

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama. — Robin Benway

So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago. — Philip Larkin

... although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom. — Jasper Fforde

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. — Sophocles