Kerkhofs Tent Quotes & Sayings

I cried, a bit, as a spoke to Belinda on my mobile phone, in a quiet corner, perhaps the only quiet corner in Jaipur. I told her how I'd hoped Paul would read the forward, that he'd read how much I admired his work and how much I admired him, how much I just plain liked him and loved him. But, even as I spoke, I knew: Paul had always known that. He'd seen in on my face every time we met. What made me cry was the obvious, stupid fact that we'd never meet again. — Roddy Doyle

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves. — Blaise Pascal

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place. — Maggie Stiefvater

Shit, I don't want to lose my feet. I like my feet. — Tyson Hartnett

The tendency to view the holistic work of the church as the action of the privileged toward the marginalized often derails the work of true community healing. Ministry in the urban context, acts of justice and racial reconciliation require a deeper engagement with the other - an engagement that acknowledges suffering rather than glossing over it. — Soong-Chan Rah

May the hair on your toes never fall out! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches ... — Euripides

There is a way of avoiding which resembles seeking. — Victor Hugo

You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to. — Alessandro Baricco

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. — Byron White

He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to. — Miranda July

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't. — Bob Edwards

But only the witnesses feel fear, a maddening fear, for what they could bring to light is even larger than the sun that is measured and gauged and set down down in a study. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful. — Robert Brunner

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre