Home Sheat Quotes & Sayings

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. — Nizar Qabbani

The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now. — Rachel Hartman

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone. — Anthony Hamilton

At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside. — Astrid Lindgren

A weed doesn't care if it is beautiful or not. It only cares that it survives. — Catherine Beery

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy. — Susan Howatch

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands. — Pete Wentz

Emotions are given to us by God, so that we can fully experience our experiences. The only problem with emotions is that we get addicted or attached to them. We take them as final or substantive. Emotions do have the ability to open you to consciousness, but then they tend to become the whole show. Most human thought is just obsessive, compulsive commentary. It's "repetitive and useless," as Eckart Tolle says. I would say the same of emotions.
Contemplation allows you to see (contemplata means "to see") this happening in yourself ...
Contemplation and silence nip the ego and its negatives in the bud by teaching you how to watch and guard your very thoughts and feelings - but from a place of love and not judgment. — Richard Rohr

How could it be true that [he] was dead, and how would it feel to have him dead in her heart forever? — Cornelia Funke

Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. — George W. Bush

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings. — Frederick Lenz

The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques. — John D. Caputo