Dia De Accion De Gracias Quotes & Sayings

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice. — Gillian Welch

And in all of us, as well as in the aspens and clouds and nebulae, there was a process of evolution. Evolution from what? Into what?- Eternal evolution and struggle... As though there could be any sort of tendency and struggle in the eternal! And I was astonished that in spite of the utmost effort of thought in this direction I could not discover the meaning of life, the meaning of my impulses and yearnings. And the meaning of my impulses is so clear within me, that I was living according to them all the time, and I was astonished and rejoiced when the peasant expressed it to me: to live for God, for my soul. — Leo Tolstoy

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll

The funny part about Islam is; even if you rape a woman, it would be considered as her fault. — M.F. Moonzajer

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds. — Steve Hagen

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made. — Saint Augustine

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly. — Tom Bergeron

There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work. — Ludwig Von Mises

For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows. — Saint Augustine

He'd never been to military pilot school, but he knew that years of training had compartmentalized Alex's brain into two halves: piloting problems and, secondarily, everything else. — James S.A. Corey

Remember me as of ages ago and days gone long,
When we'd go off at a tangent along;
Thy page- dyed pieces among
The rest I have known a poem. — Mpho Leteng