Daniel Kirkwood Quotes & Sayings

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. — Graham Greene

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most. — Ann Brashares

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel. — Nnedi Okorafor

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. — Edward Gorey

He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I went on a Saturday afternoon, once more cutting through Dorrance Marstellar's cornfield — Stephen King

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. — Brennan Manning

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. — C.S. Lewis

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. — J.D. Salinger

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. — Hernan Cortes

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie. — Bob Mould

Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on. — John C. Malone