Jeanene Van Quotes & Sayings

The intellectual or logical man, rather than the understanding or observant man, set himself to imagine designs - to dictate purposes to God. — Edgar Allan Poe

Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind. — David Grann

Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up the dust off the street plod lazily in the clear, cool night. And in dark corners where people forget to look, the goons come out. — Bailey Bristol

I've known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them ... to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don't ask quarters. — Horton Foote

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. — Alan Bennett

They should call fishing what it really is ... tricking and killing! — Demetri Martin

church must bear witness to Jesus Christ as living lord, and it must do so in a world that has turned away from Christ after knowing him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In my case dust has become Gold — A.R. Rahman

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. — Michael Beckwith

On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course. — Arthur C. Clarke

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke. — Paul Bowles