Father Jim Pallardy Quotes & Sayings

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world. — Henry R. Luce

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Her letter proved it didn't matter how much time we had; it mattered what we did with it. Love was one thing time could never take away from us. — Steph Nuss

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself. — Krista Tippett

I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words, — Gabrielle Zevin

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is ... — Wes Moore

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain

The Mother Of God
The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare
Through the hollow of an ear;
Wings beating about the room;
The terror of all terrors that I bore
The Heavens in my womb.
Had I not found content among the shows
Every common woman knows,
Chimney corner, garden walk,
Or rocky cistern where we tread the clothes
And gather all the talk?
What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
This fallen star my milk sustains,
This love that makes my heart's blood stop
Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
And bids my hair stand up? — W.B.Yeats

The law you sons of bitches! — Terry Pratchett

The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it. — Sherwood Anderson

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung

My Son, thou art not yet strong and prudent in thy love." 2. Wherefore, O my Lord? 3. "Because for a little opposition thou fallest away from thy undertakings, and too eagerly seekest after consolation. The strong lover standeth fast in temptations, and believeth not the evil persuasions of the enemy. As in prosperity I please him, so in adversity I do not displease. — Thomas A Kempis

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method ... — Bret Harte

Each and every day around the world, display wars are taking place as governments, multinational corporations, criminals, and terrorists battle to shape and control what is seen online. What ensues is a real but covert war on reality, one that is meant to blind us to the truth. — Marc Goodman