Cod4 Quotes & Sayings

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war. — Ilana Mercer

The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was The Audacity of Hope. — Barack Obama

Too much virtue can be criminal. — Jean Racine

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. — Martin Luther King Jr.

this is what happens to people when they spend their entire life inside books + never come out: real life starts to grate by comparison. — Garth Risk Hallberg

The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously. — Ariel Pink

They often went over the line of his personal space. This was what he'd always wanted, he — Bella Andre

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself. — Ruth Haley Barton

In the end the only thing that got me through was the belief that she was too good for this place ... She was too good for this place. — Samantha Young

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred. — Terence McKenna

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. — Willa Cather

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. — Sue Monk Kidd

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are.And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. — Penelope Lively

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me. — Gene Kelly