Gerbes Columbia Quotes & Sayings

The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified. — Robert Farrar Capon

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. — Samuel Johnson

Word can travel fast when it wants to, but the truth? The truth is rarely so reliable. — Brian Wood

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself. — Henry David Thoreau

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure. — Henry David Thoreau

It's possible to know - like really know - another human being. But I'm starting to think that most of us never even want to try and know another person until it's too late to save them. — Kara Thomas

I said that we should be all right if we had some cigarettes. I only meant this as a joke; nevertheless half an hour later McNair appeared with two packets of Lucky Strike. He had braved the pitch-dark streets, roamed by Anarchist patrols who had twice stopped him at the pistol's point and examined his papers. I shall not forget this small act of heroism. We were very glad of the cigarettes. — George Orwell

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker

I need you to breathe for me. — Patrick Rothfuss

I'm not a Christian. — Michael Sheen

To love others you must first love yourself. — Leo Buscaglia

I tried to make rice the other day, and it was a disaster." David tilted his head. "Just follow the directions on the box." The look of disgust that Raymond aimed at David dragged an unexpected laugh out of me. David looked between us in confusion, and Raymond shook his head. "White people. — Santino Hassell