Doelman Rode Quotes & Sayings

Our essential embodiment will keep interrupting our Platonic desire to do away with the body, will keep insinuating itself into our dualistic discourses to remind us that the triune God of creation traffics in ashes and dust, blood and bodies, fish and bread. And he pronounces all of it very good — James K.A. Smith

For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. — Francis Bacon

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child? — Phyllis Bottome

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything. — Wayne Gretzky

No one can declare your feelings and emotions illegal or judge them unworthy. You feel what you feel. — Charles F. Glassman

How could you not know that there is nothing in the world I want as much as I want you? — Julianne Donaldson

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. — Placido Domingo

We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots. — Siri Hustvedt

started wondering if other people's families are as nutty as mine. Or is mine extra nutty? Like, chunky-peanut-butter nutty? — Publishers Lunch

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe. — Martin McGuinness

No one should be required to see America for the first time. — Ashley Montagu

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this. — Jonathan Haidt

The Panther
His gaze is from the passing of bars
so exhausted, that it doesn't hold a thing anymore.
For him, it's as if there were thousands of bars
and behind the thousands of bars no world.
The sure stride of lithe, powerful steps,
that around the smallest of circles turns,
is like a dance of pure energy about a center,
in which a great will stands numbed.
Only occasionally, without a sound, do the covers
of the eyes slide open - . An image rushes in,
goes through the tensed silence of the frame
only to vanish, forever, in the heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Is this a dream?" The words spilled from her mouth.
Owen's grip on her hand tightened, that lone dark eye trapped her with its serious intensity. "Waking up across from you is the stuff of which dreams are made. But, no. — Laura Kaye