Duino Castle Quotes & Sayings

Part of why kids like this scared me was that they seemed authentic. — Jonathan Franzen

And, you know, when all is said and done, it really is better to wind up feeling scared and stupid than not feel anything at all. — Autumn Doughton

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent. — Elizabeth Gaskell

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs. — Harry Truman

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion. — William Anthony Donohue

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view. — Erwin W. Lutzer

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying. — Brendan Morrison

It's my life and it's now or never. — Jon Bon Jovi

The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated. — Amos Smith

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) — Michael Pollan

When you can cross the highwire without falling off, you are in a state of perfect balance, perfect grace. It is the same with obedience. When you submit, submit totally, you enter that same equilibrium, surrender and grace. This is the meaning of erotic. — Chloe Thurlow

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn. — Lord Chesterfield

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato