Jimmy Santos English Quotes & Sayings

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. — Franz Kafka

We carry out our work under the leadership of the government. — Li Shufu

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway
in secret. — Louise Erdrich

One direct approach had, by its vain cost, done much to undo the aggregate advantage which indirect approaches alone had built up. And it is not the least significant feature that the issue was finally settled, in the reverse way, by yet another example of the indirect approach. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Christians, day by day, week by week, and month by month, are told to walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit means being led and directed by the Holy Spirit. This comes as we progressively yield various areas of our lives to the Spirit's control. Now desire in itself is not wrong, it's what we desire or lust for that is wrong - and when we yield. — Billy Graham

On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity':
"In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment."
Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137 — Marva J. Dawn

He knows this by the way the girl stumbles, and it occurs to him for the first time that by taking her with him he'll be slowed down. He'll be hampered by her ability to see. — Margaret Atwood

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. — Ernest Gaines

I'm strange, but how much deeper go as much stranger I go. To make horror make me laugher, because people suffer in this world! — Deyth Banger

When you say that you can't accomplish your goals, you are robbing yourself of an unforgettable experience: the pathway to wisdom. — Jason W. Blair

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity. — Martin Luther King Jr.