Quotes & Sayings About Irene Van Dyk

I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start. — Aaron Sorkin

The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him. — D. A. Carson

Words are tools of imagery in motion, — Sam Shepard

a storm that walked on legs of lightning,
dragging its shaggy belly over the fields. — Ted Kooser

Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life. — Pope Benedict XVI

Listen more often than you speak. — Howard Baker

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be — Kai Greene