Crossbeam Bracket Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift. — Prince

An Indian shopkeeper offered kites with images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Barack Obama in Mumbai this month. — Anonymous

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed. — Jerry Bridges

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time. — David Guterson

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator. — Ordway Tead

I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it. — Rachel Caine

The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart. — Kyriacos C. Markides

Biology doesn't make anyone a parent," Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt. — Melissa Landers

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief — George Bernard Shaw

The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion. — Donald M. MacKinnon

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years? — F Scott Fitzgerald

It would be some joke to win through all these perils, only to drop dead of exhaustion within sight of Haven. — Alison Croggon