Flippancy Screwtape Quotes & Sayings

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure. — Socrates

She was my compass. I was her legend. We were the rivers and the lakes, the highways and the back roads, the mountains and the borders. I finally knew where I was. Charlotte was my You Are Here point on the map of life. — Julia Kent

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis

Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it. — Peggy Randall-Martin

Is there any wonder why the world is where it's at now? just notice the creature sitting near you in a movie house or standing ahead of you in a supermarket line. or giving a State of the Union Address. that the gods have let us go on this long this badly. — Charles Bukowski

Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that He was having a harder time with me than I was with them — Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

The next day, all that stopped him from feeling pure exultance was the question: had it been too easy? — Julian Barnes

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar

The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode. — Gil Scott-Heron

Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore. — Greg Gutfeld