Joselyne Mejia Quotes & Sayings

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow. — David Wroblewski

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. — Oscar Wilde

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. — Roy Hattersley

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. — Alan Perlis

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said ... 'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically. — Matthew Carter

She was not a believer in love at first sight, although she did believe that instant lust (going under the more innocent name of infatuation) occurred frequently. — Stephen King

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule. — Linus Pauling

The first step toward a genuine theory of consciousness, I believe, is the realization that consciousness is not located in the organism. Rather, consciousness is a four-quadrant affair, and it exists, if it exists at all, distributed across all four quadrants, anchored equally in each.12 — Ken Wilber

When you talk with people or type to people which you know or don't know ... do you see the distance?
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The distance?
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Do you feel it?
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Isn't it cold? — Deyth Banger

My best friend came to visit from far away. She took two planes and a train to get to Brooklyn. We met at a bar near my apartment and drank in a hurry as the babysitter's meter ticked. In the past, we talked about books and other people, but now we talked only of our respective babies, hers sweet-faced and docile, mine at war with the world. We applied our muzzy intellects to a theory of light. That all are born radiating light but that this light diminished slowly (if one was lucky) or abruptly (if one was not). The most charismatic people - the poets, the mystics, the explorers - were that way because they had somehow managed to keep a bit of this light that was meant to have dimmed. But the shocking thing, the unbearable thing it seemed, was that the natural order was for this light to vanish. It hung on sometimes through the twenties, a glint here or there in the thirties, and then almost always the eyes went dark. — Jenny Offill

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching. — Steven J. Lawson

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. — Mark Twain

Our lives are co-authored in dialogue. — Michael Nichols