Coutonic Quotes & Sayings

Look upon others as being part of yourself. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The church has unfolded in many forms, and no one single external form stands alone as the CORRECT visible expression. As the church settled in various geographical areas and as it penetrated through a variety of cultures, it found expression in multifaceted forms. Thus, the insistence that the church must exist in a single form is a denial not only of the richness of creation, but also of the complexities of the human response. — Robert E. Webber

Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses, — Ian Fleming

Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to spend a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Ryan stood over me. "What are you doing?"
"Dying. — Piper Shelly

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble ... No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife. — Bertrand Russell

I felt so many things at once that together, they combined to make nothing, a numbness, an absence of feeling caused by a surplus of feeling. — Hanya Yanagihara

Voluntary Quicksand
I read the Chronicle this morning
as if I were stepping into voluntary
quicksand
and watched the news go over my shoes
with forty-four more days of spring.
Kent State
America
May 7, 1970 — Richard Brautigan

I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York. — Daniel Boulud