Kilgarriffe Quotes & Sayings

I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. I made a very conscious act of commitment and my only desire was to be kept in purity and holiness throughout the whole time of my earthly pilgrimage. I didn't choose Christ's narrow path for the riches, fame, or comfortable life it would bring, for I had experienced several times in my family before I became a Christian that true discipleship would mean a life of persecution. — Mikhail Khorev

Aragorn looked at him with kindly pity. 'Very well, Frodo, son of Drogo,' he said. 'You shall have an hour, and you shall be alone. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen

You're very young ... you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday ... — Agatha Christie

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility. — Odilon Redon

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative. — Douglas Horton

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. — John Steinbeck

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. — Michel De Montaigne

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant. — Yehuda Berg

It was a man taking a machine and a machine taking a man into secret places, into the subliminal. — Christopher Hilton

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality. — Quentin Crisp

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. — Marcus Tullius Cicero