Knitted Blanket Quotes & Sayings

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. — Michelle Bachelet

We need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves. — Philip Yancey

There's a black Mercedes rollin' through the combat zone
Your servants are half dead; you're down to the bone
Tell me, tall man, where would you like to be overthrown
Maybe down in Jerusalem or Argentina?
Angelina — Bob Dylan

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system. — Ed Seykota

All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone. — Karen Marie Moning

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair. — Steven Van Zandt

To say it once more: today I find it an impossible book: I consider it badly written, ponderous, embarrassing, image-mad and image-confused, sentimental, in places saccharine to the point of effeminacy, uneven in tempo, without the will to logical cleanliness, very convinced and therefore disdainful of proof, mistrustful even of the propriety of proof, a book for initiates, "music" for those dedicated to music, those who are closely related to begin with on the basis of common and rare aesthetic experiences, "music" meant as a sign of recognition for close relatives in artibus - an arrogant and rhapsodic book that sought to exclude right from the beginning the profanum vulgus of "the educated" even more than "the mass" or "folk. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something. — Winston Churchill

The old forests are going and once they are gone we will have to wait a thousand years or more to see their like. Though nothing will be allowed such a generous measure of time to grow. — Annie Proulx

Oscar Wilde's "beautiful untrue things" that save the imagination from falling into "careless habits of accuracy. — Harold Bloom