Kupelian David Quotes & Sayings

Isn't this your life? That ancient kiss
still burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeat
so accurate, the church bell simply seems
a pure announcement: ring and no one comes?
Don't empty houses ring? Are magnesium
and scorn sufficient to support a town,
not just Philipsburg, but towns
of towering blondes, good jazz and booze
the world will never let you have
until the town you came from dies inside? — Richard Hugo

The scullery roof had sprung a leak: she put down a bowl to catch the drips, but the rainwater spread and darkened, to make treasure maps and Whistler nocturnes of the walls and ceiling. — Sarah Waters

Your perception is your right in your mind — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks. — Dean Rusk

We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least radically reduce it — Immanuel Wallerstein

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true. — Leonard Woolf

There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you - may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours. — Anne Carson

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. — Thomas Carlyle

The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him. — Ted Chiang

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief? — Oscar Wilde

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp. — Bob Dylan

Dream the life you desire. Then live it with passion and love. — Debasish Mridha

She'd made her way into his heart. Snuck in when he wasn't looking. It was impossible to be with her and not fall deeply, madly in love with her. — Christine Feehan

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them. — John Stott