Kickemz Quotes & Sayings

As the African American theologian James Cone notes, "Far from being songs of passive resignation, the spirituals are black freedom songs which emphasize black liberation as consistent with divine revelation. — James Martin

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

What did you think I was?"
"A rude Hick."
"Geez, blunt much? — Cynthia Hand

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

In the country, a good he-snowstorm makes a lovely design for putting on a holiday greetings card. In the city it just makes an infernal mess for the street-cleaning department to wrestle with. ... By midday of next day it would be licked to a custard - molten into puddles of foggy slush where cellar furnaces exhaled their hot breath up out of sidewalk gratings, roiled and fouled and crunched down beneath the heels and the tires of the town, flung up in crumply billows by the conscripted shovel crews, and under the park trees and on the park meadows would show a stark and grayish cast like the face of a grimy pauper whose corpse the undertaker scanted. And the longer it stayed there the sootier and the dirtier and the deader-looking it would get to be. You may worry the city with your winter weathers; you cannot keep her licked for any great length of time. — Irvin S. Cobb

'And I promise not to keep assuming that living in the sticks means you're inbred trailer trash if you'll stop supposing that I'm an asshole just because I grew up in a place big enough for traffic lights.'
A hint of a smile played at the corner of Chris's mouth. 'Can I still think you're an asshole for other reasons?' — Kim Fielding

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me. — David B. Coe

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point. — Deepika Padukone

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace. — Alice Hoffman

Sometimes not knowing helps you to get along with your life better than how much knowing must have. — Eliza

Meet me backstage later?"

The deep voice whispered along her skin and her body hummed in appreciation. She turned her focus to the eyes shaded under the cap. — Eden Summers

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him. — Oswald Chambers

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. — Donald Rumsfeld

The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else. — Tristan Jones