Holsopple Ridgway Quotes & Sayings

In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'. — Dada Bhagwan

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. — Barry Lopez

When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it's very hard to endure the not having. — Susan Sheehan

And William laughed with his special blend of mischief, compounded of humor, spite, and sadness in a ratio even he wasn't sure of but that he mixed by feel. — Edmund White

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories. — Molly Ringle

If the elf-king had a weakness it was for treasure, especially for silver and white gems; and though his hoard was rich, he was ever eager for more, since he had not yet as great a treasure as other elf-lords of old. — J.R.R. Tolkien

if you get between the lawyer and his goal, you're going to get hurt. — Jon Ronson

As we see this work move forward and move on, I would only declare to you as I stand before you today that in those 90 and more years that I've had, as I've witnessed and felt and seen and been part of the spiritual experiences that have been mine, that this is the work of the Lord. It's just as has been revealed. I've sensed it and I feel it, and I so declare to you. — David B. Haight