Great Uncle Buck Quotes & Sayings

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. — Isaiah

What a revelation it was, to discover so many ordinary people in a place together, more conscious of God than of one another: not there to show off their hats or their clothes, but to pray, or at least to fulfill a religious obligation, not a human one. For even those who might have been there for no better motive than that they were obliged to be, were at least free from any of the self-conscious and human constraint which is never absent from a Protestant church where people are definitely gathered together as people, as neighbors, and always have at least half an eye for one another, if not all of both eyes. — Thomas Merton

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats. — Kenzaburo Oe

His eyes were dark. I knew that look. He was suddenly possessive of me, but I pretended not to notice. — J.L.Drake

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth. — Jack Goldstein

Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females. — Trish Mercer