Eskers Concrete Quotes & Sayings

The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67) — Tara Leigh Cobble

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out. — Emily Browning

I'm broken, and no one can fix it. — Jennifer Niven

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres. — Imtiaz Ali

God always knows the most excellent path — Sunday Adelaja

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it. — John Ruskin

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. — Josh Billings

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation. — Martina Navratilova

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called Americanisation. We understand nothing till we understand the amazing ambition to Americanise the Kamskatkan and the Hairy Ainu. We are not trying to Anglicise thousand of French cooks or Italian organ-grinders. France is not trying to Gallicise thousands of English trippers or German prisoners of war. America is the only place in the world where this process, healthy or unhealthy, possible or impossible, is going on. And the process, as I have pointed out, is not internationalization. It would be truer to say it is the nationalization of the internationalized. It is making a home out of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles. — G.K. Chesterton