Clergyman Def Quotes & Sayings

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child."
I stopped. — Gail Carson Levine

Loeser found it hard to believe that God was forever slapping the face of the universe like a policeman trying to stop a drunk from falling asleep. — Ned Beauman

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value. — Christopher Fry

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another. — Jesse Ball

The most profound legacy of the dominance of bureaucratic forms of organization over the last two hundred years is that it has made this intuitive division between rational, technical means and the ultimately irrational ends to which they are put seem like common sense. — David Graeber

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion. — Brendan Myers

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people. — Dick Van Patten

The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order ... is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz