Covid 19 Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence - from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage? — Andy Andrews

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious. — Steve Carell

It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet] — Nick Drake

As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, if he can but fall into a meditation of God, and the things of God, his heart will soon come off to prayer ... Begin with reading or hearing. Go on with meditation; end in prayer ... Reading without meditation is unfruitful; meditation without reading is hurtful; to meditate and to read without prayer upon both, is without blessing. — William Bridge

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in. — William Kent Krueger

As an old man ... looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about ... is suffering, affliction. — Malcolm Muggeridge

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. — Michel Gondry

My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future. But either we survive (and so far in human history a vast majority has always survived) and having survived when we might not have done so gives us what we call happiness; or we do not survive and do not know it. — John Fowles

So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's hostility, but comforted by the mercy of God. Nor does this state of affairs date only from the days of Christ's and His Apostles' presence on earth. It was never any different from the days when the first just man, Abel, was slain by his ungodly brother. So shall it be until this world is no more. — Augustine Of Hippo

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To the believers it is true.
To the wise it is false.
To the leaders it is useful. — Seneca The Younger

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. — Orson Scott Card

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock. — Aleksis Kivi

There are people who would do anything to listen to your dreams, never let go of them — Olufemi Olumide