Kibitzer Tavern Quotes & Sayings

The past is the key to the present and an ice core is a door to that past. — James W. Mercer

In the old tongue which had once been his world's lingua franca, most words, like khef and ka, had many meanings. The word char, however - char as in Charlie the Choo-Choo - had only one. Char meant death. — Stephen King

Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament ... the Bible says God commands repentance ... it is a command ...
God says, Repent! Or perish! — Billy Graham

My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest. — Luis Alberto Urrea

Imagine: If a man who shakes hands up and down meets a man who shakes hands side to side, what will happen?
Nathan looked perplexed but he extended his hand all the same. As they shook, their clasped hands went round and round in circles. — Marcel Theroux

From the cradle to the grave, you are measured against the ever-present yardstick of the average, judged according to how closely you approximate it or how far you are able to exceed it. — Todd Rose

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice. — Aristotle.

Alaric grunted. Someone should tell her
that. I'm telling you, Ewan, she said nothing.
She stared at me like I was some kind of
toad. Worse, she had Crispen acting like I
was the enemy. The two whispered like
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conspirators and glared at me when I dared
intervene. — Maya Banks

If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and the miserably poor, the have-nots deprived even of essentials and people who thoughtlessly waste what others so desperately need. Such countries are an affront to the dignity of the human person. He further said, Ethics demand that systems be attuned to the needs of man, and not that man be sacrificed for the sake of the system. — Pope John Paul II