Embolden Def Quotes & Sayings

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. — Theo Van Gogh

He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking. — Frederick Buechner

With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better. — John Dramani Mahama

I'm glad your parents will be at the wedding. It's important for you to see them, — Robin Mahle

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language. — Terence McKenna

Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,
but looking, and touching, and loving — Mary Oliver

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. — Luigi Pirandello

When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you think of as good thoughts. — Jane Roberts

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion. — Pope John Paul II

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty. — Hazrat Inayat Khan