Friestedt Quotes & Sayings

There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't. — Atul Randev

Joblessness is an opportunity to fulfill purpose — Sunday Adelaja

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact. — Raymond Chandler

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. — Jean Genet

I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing. — Charlie Haden

As Ruth only knows one priest (one male priest that is) she's not that surprised to find Father Hennessey waiting for her at one of the long tables, a cappucino in front of him. 'Hallo Ruth, sorry to call in on you like this.'

'That's OK.'

'Are you going to get yourself a drink? This coffee's really very good. It's truly terrible, the stuff they serve at the police station.'

'I know.' Ruth has had her own experience of Nelson's coffee. She wonders if it's a way of torturing suspects until they confess. In contrast, the coffee at the university is excellent. Ruth gets herself an espresso. She thinks that she is going to need the energy. She has a feeling that, like the visit from Nelson all those years ago, this conversation is going to complicate her life. — Elly Griffiths

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too. — Anthony Weiner

Do what lasts, get around to everything else. — Bob Goff

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference. — Chaim Potok

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance. — Robert Collier

Life begins when you do. — Hugh Downs

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair. — Paula Heller Garland

A child ... opens and closes like a blossom. — Elias Canetti

Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones. — Cormac McCarthy

When trial in life comes over us, we should be thankful, because God purifies us ... as a new cloth needs to be washed. — Radostin Chernev