Fugitive Pieces Book Quotes & Sayings

I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful. — John Feldmann

Don't run from the police, my uncle had always joked when we'd watched Cops years ago. You'll only go to jail tired. — Anonymous

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero. — Peter Jacobson

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement. — John Berger

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too. — Simon Schama

Every instrument, tool, vessel, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there. But in the things which are held together by nature there is within and there abides in them the power which made them; wherefore the more is it fit to reverence this power, and to think, that, if thou dost live and act according to its will, everything in thee is in conformity to intelligence. And thus also in the universe the things which belong to it are in conformity to intelligence. — Marcus Aurelius

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E.L. Doctorow

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere. — Ram Dass

Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted. — Lucille Anderson

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen. — Saint Teresa Of Avila