Drewski Quotes & Sayings

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour. — Abraham Lincoln

I love your duck with all its ducky goodness! — Jade Puget

Do you know how it hurts to touch you
knowing that in the morning I'll still wake up alone? — Shinji Moon

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government. — Judy Woodruff

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Sometimes you give more love, sometimes you need more love. Be with the person you can balance with. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

The problem is this: when we separate Jesus from his ideas for an alternative social structure, we inevitably succumb to the temptation to harness Jesus to our ideas - thus conferring upon our human political ideas an assumed divine endorsement. With little awareness of what we are doing, we find ourselves in collusion with the principalities and powers to keep the world in lockstep with the ancient choreography of violence, war, and death. We do this mostly unconsciously, but we do it. I've done it. And the result is that we reduce Jesus to being the Savior who guarantees our reservation in heaven while using him to endorse our own ideas about how to run the world. This feeds into a nationalized narrative of the gospel and leads to a state-owned Jesus. Thus, our understanding of Christ has mutated from Roman Jesus to Byzantine Jesus to German Jesus to American Jesus, etc. — Brian Zahnd

You want to pray to someone, pray to Bruce Willis in Armageddon. — Ben H. Winters

They were probably the best-matched pair of weird fucks that life had ever coughed — Andrea Speed

A kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Black slaves seem to have cost from two to three hundred dirhams; black eunuchs, at least two or three times as much. Female black slaves were sold at five hundred dirhams or so; trained singing girls or other performers, at ten or even twenty thousand. — Bernard Lewis

She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute for talent... — W. Somerset Maugham

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.
Proverb — Idries Shah

This is the girl, here, this girl with a ruined look who touches me and whom I love. — Jean-Paul Sartre