Frescoed Chapel Quotes & Sayings

I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for. — Lou Holtz

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Big Cactus ... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck. — Shaquille O'Neal

Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration. — Koichi Tohei

This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet. — Leonard Ravenhill

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you. — Brian Tracy

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. — Marjane Satrapi

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst. — Jan Hammer

As a lord was held
for the strength of his body and stoutness of heart.
Much lore he learned, and loved wisdom
but fortune followed him in few desires;
oft wrong and awry what he wrought turned;
what he loved he lost, what he longed for he won not;
and full friendship he found not easily,
nor was lightly loved for his looks were sad.
He was gloom-hearted, and glad seldom
for the sundering sorrow that filled his youth ...
(On Turin Turambar - The Children of Hurin) — J.R.R. Tolkien

He returned to his seat and sat down; the road is so long, so long; he had to get through these spaces where stations clustered about the track amidst the black night like some black coffin set with candles. He thought that minute was flying after minute, mile after mile, everything was moving - even he was moving - but to where?

("Adam") — Andrei Bely

Ideas are always more important than money. — Jack Layton