Glinted From The Church Quotes & Sayings

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood. — Shaun Cassidy

If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. — Gautama Buddha

Do not complain, pray for courage to endure the situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My work comes first, reasons for it follow. — Andy Goldsworthy

You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system. — G.A.P. Gutierrez

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper. — Alexandra Stoddard

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it. — Jonathan Franzen

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity. — George Will

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness — Rohinton Mistry