Des Groseilliers Quotes & Sayings

Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference. — Edmund Clowney

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks. — Riker Lynch

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history — Manuel De Landa

Every ... subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause. — Joss Whedon

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. — Ambrose Bierce

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get. — Tim Bevan

He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want. — Lionel Shriver

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass. — John Marshall

This was the first one who watched me, listened, and got it. And walked out. Not because she wasn't interested. Not because she was playing a game. It was because she understood me. She was the only one. — Kate Morgenroth

It may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto him, and take his hands, saying, Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands. — E. E. Cummings

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality. — Susane Colasanti

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel. — Kobayashi Issa

New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education
the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap
and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk ... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money. — Alexander Theroux

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. — Jerome K. Jerome