Coborn Quotes & Sayings

I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort. — Terry Tempest Williams

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning. — Martin Luther King Jr.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. — Edmund Husserl

The Answer is answer of another question beyond that question. — Deyth Banger

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most. — Tamera Alexander

Or had you no other means of capturing the grace of this creature except with a collar? Don't you realize that you destroy a rose if you crush it in your hand? I know that tone is unity which cannot be divided by words, I know that I am crushing a rose, but to shatter silence into words is one of my awkward ways of loving silence, & it is in this way that I have so often killed what I understand. — Clarice Lispector

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy — Gene Wolfe

He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts
a few of them
which at the moment of their coming to him had thrilled him almost like adventures. — Henry James

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else. — Walter Kirn

I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith? — Will Smith

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind. — Otto Rank

We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross. — Joyce Meyer

Nice people who are beginning to live to a great age - as it were - react with such revulsion to the burgeoning horrors that confront them, they generally prefer suicide. It's only us slightly malevolent types who are able to survive that realisation and find a kind of pleasure - or at least satisfaction - in watching how the latest generation or most recently evolved species can re-discover and beat out afresh the paths to disaster, ignominy and shame we had naively assumed might have become hopelessly over-grown. — Iain M. Banks

Maybe, if she was standing before that sleeping king, she'd ask the king to save Gansey's life. — Maggie Stiefvater