Konsortium Express Quotes & Sayings

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial. — Richard Rohr

On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow. — Margaret Clarkson

For who can stop the heart from breaking? — Alan Paton

The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended. — Henry Van Dyke

Money rules the world, and doubtless also, here and there, the bit of love within it, and when love turns to hate, one remembers unpaid board. — Robert Walser

Holly, who has a smart mouth on her, was able to fuck with his head enough to have him giftwrap his balls and send them to her. — River Savage

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books. — Alan Lightman

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting. — Julian Coolidge

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works. — Dane DeHaan

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me. — Anna Held

I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want. — Saul Bellow

Then give me your pain, Master. I can bear it as long as I know your lips will touch every mark when you're done, signing it as your work. — Joey W. Hill

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. — Henry Rollins

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. — William Hague