Contemporaine Quotes & Sayings

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. — Harold Brodkey

For each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult. — Johann Hari

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. — Evelyn Waugh

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder. — Alexandra Bracken

These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles started pre-erupting hundred of years before the issues even arose. — Douglas Adams

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience. — John Of Kronstadt

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic. — Karen Duffy

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

Eldest taught me about ancient religions that worshiped the sun. I never understood why- it's just a ball of light and heat. But if the sun of Sol-Earth swirls in colors and lights like that girl's hair, well, I can see why the ancients would worship that. — Beth Revis

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. — Salvatore Quasimodo

Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts. — Laozi

Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in talking about the church is telling ourselves the truth about it - acknowledging the scars, staring down the ugly bits, marveling at its resiliency, and believing that this flawed and magnificent body is enough, for now, to carry us through the world and into the arms of Christ. — Rachel Held Evans

God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves. — Karina Halle