Ditzening Quotes & Sayings

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. — Allan Sloan

Writing constantly is the best tonic to jealousy I've found. — L. E. Henderson

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience. — David Bowie

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority. — Michel Martelly

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out. — Bertrand Russell

He'd chased Vasquez for nine days now. Someone had warned the programmer just before Cooper got to the Boston walk-up, a brick rectangle where the only light had been a window onto an airshaft and the glowing red eyes of power indicators on computers and routers and surge protectors. The desk chair had been against the far wall as if someone had leaped out of it, and steam still rose from an abandoned bowl of ramen. — Marcus Sakey

You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you're trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is. — Angelo Dirks

Love is the substance with which God created the omniverse. — Stefan Emunds

The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one. — Christina Baker Kline

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book ... that's no fun at all. — Joe Satriani

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can. — J.C. Ryle

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology. — Lewis Thomas

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi