Jiyong Lee Quotes & Sayings

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!" - yet — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," he told Dukas. "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly. — Walter Isaacson

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself. — Hans Kung

In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling his twoness
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body. — Ron Suskind

I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world. — Michael Jackson

Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father; slippery people looked slippery; they really did. And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudiced and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right! — Alexander McCall Smith

Stephen and the others at the table broke the bread in the baskets before them, and one of the others then prayed about a broken vessel, a perfect sacrifice. Words Linux knew he should have understood, because Stephen had spent their last two sessions explaining what would happen during the communion service. How they followed a pattern that had been set in place at their last meal with the Messiah during the Passover feast, the night before he had been taken from them. Linux knew all these things, yet he was unprepared for what was happening. Not there at the front table, as next the wine was poured and blessed and shared. No, what was happening inside him. — Janette Oke

Listen to presences inside poems. — Rumi

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off. — Maria Sharapova

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure. — Marlon Brando

First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher. — Judah P. Benjamin

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes. — Micah Lexier

Insight leads to Realisation. Realisation changes the lens, which changes the conversation. And this is the start. — Nina Joshi Ramsey