Densey Quotes & Sayings

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend. — H.W. Brands

In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist." — Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal. — William Zinsser

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy. — Joe Hill

A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality. — Densey Clyne

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter. — Densey Clyne

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches. — Densey Clyne

Sister Amelia spun, a whirling dervish in the service of the All-Mother, removing unnatural creatures from the lake. — Milton J. Davis

Nathan was pretending to be Ed. He was pretending to be a good man, and everyone was falling for it. "Sure — Liane Moriarty

While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment. — Ken Salazar

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one. — L. Ron Hubbard

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough. — Angela Merkel

Home is the place where true politeness tells. — Julia McNair Wright

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. — Henry David Thoreau

The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty! — Densey Clyne

Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice
books in which Christ and the Holy Ghost have their rightful office
books in which justification, and sanctification, and regeneration, and faith, and grace, and holiness are clearly, distinctly, and accurately delineated and exhibited, these are the only books which do real good. Few things need reviving more than a taste for such books as these among readers. — J.C. Ryle

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean ... — Densey Clyne

Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights. — Densey Clyne

We have a guardian angel, and who cares if he's a fallen one? — Anne Stuart

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them. — Densey Clyne

I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it. — Densey Clyne

It was then she said I had grown cynical. I said, that I had always been cynical - she had only never called it that. She had said rather that I was brave. She had called me an original. She had seemed to admire me for it. That — Sarah Waters

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease. — Densey Clyne