Figarola 1st Quotes & Sayings

You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed. — Barry Long

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. — Charley Pride

And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to me, especially in a culture that's forgotten the value of beauty. It's a primary source or inspiration, I guess, when so much of what goes on around you is only about money and big swinging dick capitalism. It's important for blokes to be able to do beautiful stuff, impractical stuff, that adds to life. That's an early life-lesson from surfing.
— Tim Winton

In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing. — Vint Cerf

At high enough energy and temperature - such as occurred a mere fraction of a second after the big bang - electromagnetic and weak force fields dissolve into one another, take on indistinguishable characteristics, and are more accurately called electroweak fields. — Brian Greene

I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain. — Taya Kyle

The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place. — Anne Ursu

It's okay, you can do it. Because I am playing with myself as I write this, I hope you're doing the same as you read it. Otherwise there's not much point. Go ahead. Don't be shy or modest, prudish or self-conscious. That's it. It feels nice, doesn't it? — Lee Siegel

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter. — John Green

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy. — Henry Ward Beecher

In truth, a State whose society is not sovereign is no sovereign State at all. Such is the case when a society has no chance to decide the common good, and when it has been denied the basic right to share in power and responsibility — Pope John Paul II

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't. — Kevin VanDam

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days. — Keith Richards

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. — Tony Hillerman