In Catholic Novena Means What Quotes & Sayings

Even at their most basic function, needles do two things: They give and they take away. — Ryan Graudin

And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance — Brennan Manning

Anyone should be able to reopen discussions about an agreement at any time. It helps to think of agreements as mutable, organic things that will be revisited and modified as people grow and relationships change. When we see these structures as static, they can make relationships less rather than more stable, because they will fail to adapt to change...sometimes spectaculary.
A good relationship is not something you have, it's something you do. Over and over, the best, happiest relationships we have seen and been involved in are those whose members are constantly willing to renegociate the goundwork beneath them. In fact, some people set periodic dates in their calendar when they will review their relationship agreements with each other to make sure they're still working and see if anything needs to change. — Franklin Veaux

Cats are only human, they have their faults. — Kingsley Amis

The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die. — Anne Sexton

Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself - that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink. — George Orwell

Her heart is played like well worn strings
In her eyes the sadness sings
Of one who was destined of better things — Lang Leav

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about. — Darryl Pinckney

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. — Henry Fielding