Designating Life Quotes & Sayings

If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might have
thought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought into
every-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake, it was
rather the glitter of the pieces of a broken mirror, which confuses
and bewilders. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. — David Bailey

We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from the two greatest pressures of secular adult life: having to be rational and having to be faithful. — Alain De Botton

'Gaydamak' in Turkish means a fighter. That's me. — Arcadi Gaydamak

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears. — Jeffrey R. Holland

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish. — Ashwin Sanghi

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Soul" is a barrier against reduction, against human life reduced to biology and genitals, culture and utility, race and ethnicity. It signals an interiority that permeates all exteriority, an invisibility that everywhere inhabits visibility. "Soul" carries with it resonances of God-created, God-sustained, and God-blessed. It is our most comprehensive term for designating the core being of men and women. — Eugene H. Peterson

The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April. — Hal Borland

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. — Michel De Certeau