Harvey Denton Quotes & Sayings

The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak. — Pope Benedict XVI

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me. — Christopher Paul Curtis

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman. — Guillermo Del Toro

But there are no real accidents, only decisions that feel like accidents, one after another, that take you down a certain road and take on a momentum that can't be reversed. — Nichole Bernier

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush. — Robin Ince

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. — John Stott

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork. — Anson Mount

As he claimed the right to enjoy the literature of any period for the joy that was in it, so he claimed the liberty to profit from the insights of every generation open to his study. He would have been ashamed to know nothing of what was being said, written or done in his own day; but he felt under no obligation to find it better than the products of previous time, and especially than those which had passed the sieve of old oblivion. — Jocelyn Gibb

When we wonder where the world came from
and then discuss possible answers
reason is in a sense 'on hold.' For it has no sensory material to process, no experience to make use of, because we have never experienced the whole of the great reality that we are a tiny part of
We are
in a way
a tiny part of the ball that comes rolling across the floor. So we can't know where it came from. — Jostein Gaarder

You'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be. — Vironika Tugaleva