Imfs In Acetone Quotes & Sayings

In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music. — Nadia Boulanger

Our good works are not truly good unless they're motivated by a love for God and a desire to glorify Him. But we cannot have such a Godward motivation if we think we must earn God's favor by our obedience or if we fear we may forfeit His favor by disobedience. Such a works-oriented motivation is essentially self-serving, prompted more by what we think we gain or lose than by a grateful response to the grace He has already given us through Jesus Christ. — Jerry Bridges

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.' — Siri Hustvedt

To understand God we must understand ourselves. — Toni Sorenson

While fasting, people refrain from fulfilling their basic desires for food, drink and sexual relations. This shows them that their mission in this religion is to control their desires and not allow their desires to control them and to overcome their desires and not be overcome by them. By doing so they take the path of self-rectification and do not fall into that which corrupts them. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

They leave me and I love them more. — Maurice Sendak

I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist. — Amy-Jill Levine

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business. — Janet Street-Porter

People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices. — Whitfield Diffie

I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me. — Rebel Wilson

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth. — Cameron Russell

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal. — Charles Baudelaire