Fonetrans Quotes & Sayings

But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, — Jorge Luis Borges

My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered. — Jason E. Hodges

Absurdity is what I like most in life. — David Lynch

He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself? — Teju Cole

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. — Oliver Goldsmith

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture. — Dallas Willard

[I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste. — Usher

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison. — Grant Cardone

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life. — Lesley Nicol

Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude. — Gregory J. Boyle

people so often seemed not only willing but eager to believe the worst - and the worse, the better. — Diana Gabaldon