Joalice Webster Quotes & Sayings

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. — C.S. Lewis

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world. — James Dickey

Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation. — Isaac Newton

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. — Richard Brookhiser

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall. — Bo Burnham

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path. — Andrew Lincoln

Sight can only invoke fear, not pain. — Rachel E. Carter

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants. — Alan Hirsch

Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life. — Hayley Williams

...stripped of the polish, gloss, veneer and lacquer that we wear as a polite shell and call civilization, the man of your old new world would but see in us a brother; and...what remote age was that in which he lived, since which slow-growing stone has walled in his bones and crusted the treasures of his handiwork?...Your new world does not extend far beneath the grass roots, sir. — Peter B. McCord

Going forward seems like retreat ... — Laozi

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul. — Sylvester Stallone

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well. — Robert Mundell