Jerken High School Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. — Saint Augustine

Excitement is interwoven with uncertainty, and with our willingness to embrace the unknown rather than to shield ourselves from it. But this very tension leaves us feeling vulnerable. I caution my patients that there is no such thing as safe sex. — Esther Perel

Can you understand,' asked my father, 'the deep meaning of that weakness, that passion for colored tissue, for papier-mache, for distemper, for oakum and sawdust? This is,' he continued with a pained smile, 'the proof of our love for matter as such, for its fluffiness or porosity, for its unique mystical consistency. Demiurge, that great master and artist, made matter invisible, made it disappear under the surface of life. We, on the contrary, love its creaking, its resistance, its clumsiness. We like to see behind each gesture, behind each move, its inertia, its heavy effort, its bearlike awkwardness. — Bruno Schulz

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it. — Juliette Binoche

Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain. — Scott Lynch

The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know. — Kristin Armstrong

We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power. — Little Crow

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife. — David Lange