Kortendick Quotes & Sayings

He looks like someone who could slap you or kiss you and you wouldn't be able to tell which one is coming and it would mean the same thing either way. — Alden Bell

217. "We're only given as much as the heart can endure," "What does not kill you makes you stronger," "Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn": these are the kinds of phrases that enrage my injured friend. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to come up with a spiritual lesson that demands becoming a quadriparalytic. The tepid "there must be a reason for it" notion sometimes floated by religious or quasi-religious acquaintances or bystanders, is, to her, another form of violence. She has no time for it. She is too busy asking, in this changed form, what makes a livable life, and how she can live it. — Maggie Nelson

I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do. — Cate Edwards

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. — Michael Franti

I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything — Vladimir Nabokov

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one. — Anthony Robbins

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I try to take it and leave it in God's hands. I try to do what He wants me to do and come out here and perform the best I can for my teammates. That's my responsibility. This is a tough league. Outside of basketball, the lifestyle is tough - the travel. Honestly, I think that responsibility is pretty tough but I don't believe that God gives us anything we can't handle. — Jrue Holiday

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) — Ann Jones

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense. — Richard Powers

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. — Byron Katie

I'm not making it complicated, I'm just looking at it less simply. — Gregory S. Close