Fr Hlingsfest Quotes & Sayings

Driving through the refugee camp made us think about how embarrassingly frivolous most of our problems are. — Brad Van Orden

I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open. — Crescent Dragonwagon

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare. — Walt Disney Company

The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard Dawkins. And indeed, Dawkins has done a marvelous job of popularizing Darwinism. But Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-Darwinian. — Ernst W. Mayr

I think this is truly the most wonderful experience we can have: to belong to a people walking, journeying through history together with our Lord, who walks among us! We are not alone; we do not walk alone. We are part of the one flock of Christ that walks together. — Pope Francis

Funnily enough, "self-criticism" is an idea much in vogue in Marxist countries, but there it is subordinated to ideological considerations and must serve the State, and not truth and justice in men's dealing with one another. The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa. — C. G. Jung

Here we have it. YHWH is in charge and will establish his own rule over the rest of the world from his throne in Zion. But he will do this through his "anointed," through the one he calls "my son. — N. T. Wright

Poverty's a chilly theme," he said; "let's take something to warm us before we go on with the variations. — John Meade Falkner

I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard. — Laura Mvula

The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting. — Sheryl Sandberg

For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion. — Deborah Harkness

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. — Francis Ford Coppola

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again ... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time ... to continue to mine the material and find new things. — Bebe Neuwirth

And all those times that I tried so hard to get you to hang out with me, and I just wanted to be around you so much, I've never been more right about anything in my life. The only way I can think to say it is that you are better than I thought people could be. — Lindy West