Houtte Suite Quotes & Sayings

Now that we know what we have - Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God - let's not let it slip through our fingers. We don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help. — Eugene H. Peterson

For reasons that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12-gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44 Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter and crashing glass. Yet the neighbors reacted with total silence. — Hunter S. Thompson

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man's solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude — Paul Auster

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them. — Ben Carson

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic ... all possible sins together. — Michelle Bachelet

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt. — Tom Colicchio

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. — Bill Griffith

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy. — Aaron McGruder

Dominic Chocolate!!! — Elle Bright

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic. — Jami Gertz

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine. — Daniel J. Levitin

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;
then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western windows with its villages, their thatched roofs like caps, pulled over the white-washed, half-timbered houses, its corn-fields, gleaming like mother-of-pearl in the slanting light, its orchards, its barns and old lime trees.
The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles. The train stamps and stamps onward. I stand at the window and hold on to the frame. These names mark the boundaries of my youth. — Erich Maria Remarque

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. — Michael Crichton