Criswell Maserati Quotes & Sayings

There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally potent and spiritually stimulating intersection of the living and the dead. In death and its rituals, they see the leveled playing field so elusive in life. Whether we bury our dead in Wilbert Vaults, leave them in trees to be eaten by birds, burn them or beam them into space; whether choir or cantor, piper or jazz band, casket or coffin or winding sheet, ours is the species that keeps track of our dead and knows that we are always outnumbered by them. — Thomas Lynch

You may not be the target audience for new music anymore. But that just means you have to scrounge a little harder to find it. You don't necessarily want to make a religion out of it; you just want to keep participating. Music isn't an accessory to a lifestyle
it's part of a life. It's not a youthful phase you go through. — Rob Sheffield

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness. — Sai Baba

Surprise is key in all art. — Oscar Niemeyer

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed. — Thorstein Veblen

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "

pg 346 — Veronica Roth

Anna gave me a humoring smile. Everyone eventually falls for the two of you together. You're meant to be. — S.C. Stephens

Oh, a woman can't tell one man from another; not always - not often. — Knut Hamsun

The kinds of people we meet in our life have a huge impact on the kind of person we become. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you. — Donald Miller

I am of this place. Family is a place, and my family s located here, those who are living and those who have passed. I am am settled in the scent of sage, Mount Moran's reflection at Oxbow Bend is more than a mirror of memories; it is the joy found in river otters, a reminder that there are places in the world we can return for peace unchanged. — Terry Tempest Williams

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good. — David Levithan

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible. — Paulo Coelho

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics. — Bill Scott

As TV and film writer/director Joss Whedon said, "The enemy of Humanism is not faith - the enemy of Humanism is hate, it is fear, it is ignorance, it is the darker part of man that is in every Humanist, and every person in the world ... But faith is something we have to embrace. Faith in God means believing absolutely in something, with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers."4 — Greg M. Epstein