Jongleur Quotes & Sayings

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. — Lysa TerKeurst

That year I had signed up for a course in French Medieval Literature. My mind was turning back, in a way, to the things I remembered from the old days in Saint Antonin. The deep, naive, rich simplicity of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was beginning to speak to me again. I had written a paper on a legend of a 'Jongleur de Notre Dame,' compared with a story from the Fathers of the Desert, in Migne's Latin Patrology. I was being drawn back into the Catholic atmosphere, and I could feel the health of it, even in the merely natural order, working already within me. — Thomas Merton

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. PROVERBS 16:9 — Mark Batterson

She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest. — Patricia O'Sullivan

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents! — Dick Bruna

That's the funny thing about lies; you have to keep covering them up with more lies. — Penelope Ward

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans — Ralph Nader

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature. — Naomi Klein

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting. — David Foster Wallace

We are all born to die - the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live. — Gina Lollobrigida

I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths. — Marco Rubio

The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank. — Albert Hadley

Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They attempted to explore its properties in the colors of a stained glass canopy, in the tenor of a brisk saltarello, in the lilt of a Jongleur's ballad, in the sweet savor of a banqueting table, in the rhapsody of a well planned garden, indeed, in every arena and discipline of life. — Douglas Wilson Douglas Jones

They say the sea is cold, but it contains the hottest blood of all. — Mark Quinn

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going. — Kim Cattrall

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. — Peter Norvig

I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and ... pssss ... they deflate. — Dario Fo