Hercegno Quotes & Sayings

The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. — Jack Hyles

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. — Aristotle.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. — Garth Stein

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. — Michael Parenti

First sentences are doors to worlds. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not about how much money we make or how big and powerful our work appears to others, it is about the love with which we put into each act of kindness toward another human being. — Joyce Vissell

A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival. — Charles Spurgeon

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind
a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own. — Lisa Michaels

When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right. — Cesar Chavez

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough. — Jenny Holzer

Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning.
She stood by the cooker now watching him, the pale blueberries of her eyes, watching him with pride, her two hands brought up to her mouth the way she always did when she had feelings two large for words. — Niall Williams

If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves, said the modern Christ.
But none of us could bear to pass through the tunnel which led from the house into the world on the other side of the walls, where there were leaves on the trees, where water ran beside the paths, where there was daylight and joy. We could not believe that the tunnel would open on daylight: we feared to be trapped into darkness again; we feared to return whence we had come, from darkness and night. The tunnel would narrow and taper
down as we walked; it would close around us, and close tighter and tighter around us and stifle us. It would grow heavy and narrow and suffocate us as we walked. — Anais Nin

Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn't? — Sharon Cameron

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets. — Helen Fielding

I can't bring myself to open my eyes. I am an ember, glowing from the inside out. The dark and silent room keeps everything else at bay, every sensation, except the two of us, Nick and Lily, who have just made love. — Beatriz Williams