Impulsions Quarter Quotes & Sayings

I've always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I've never lost sight of that. — Natalie Merchant

They're just a bunch of real sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to kill everybody. — Douglas Adams

Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing. — Rumi

People can meet God within their cultural context but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that's what Jesus did in the incarnation and on the cross. — Christena Cleveland

Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most powerful innovation in late human evolution. Tribes with religion had an advantage over those without. They had direction and purpose, motivation and a mission. The survival value of religion was so spectacular that the thirst for belief became embedded in the human genome. — Douglas Preston

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. — Michael Hastings

I was no longer young.
"But I'm not dead yet, — Kristen Ashley

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman