Ditchkins Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it — Jessie Douglas Kerruish

As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures. — Mark Dever

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get. — Steve Waugh

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For — Sarah Addison Allen

I'd rather be in Hell with my soul and wits, than in the outside world without them. — Franny Billingsley

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. — Albert Camus

I have had my invitation to this world's festival, and thus my life has been blessed. My eyes have seen and my ears have heard.
It was my part at this feast to play upon my instrument, and I have done all I could.
Now, I ask, has the time come at last when I may go in and see thy face and offer thee my silent salutation? — Rabindranath Tagore

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly. — Martial

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. — David Ives

So much of a novelist's writing ... takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. — Graham Greene

All I can claim in this respect, alas, is that I think I may know just about enough theology to be able to spot when someone like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens - a couplet I shall henceforth reduce for convenience to the solitary signifier Ditchkins - is talking out of the back of his neck. — Terry Eagleton

Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. "Space Vikings are professional robbers and murderers. — H. Beam Piper