Laurenzside Quotes & Sayings

What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer - they are previews of the greater life to come. — Randy Alcorn

Roadblock #5: It's Unpredictable
By and large, human beings don't like surprises. I know that I don't. Okay, maybe I like that rare piece of unexpected good news or a letter from a friend or a thoughtful thank-you. But I'm willing to bet that people in funny hats jumping out of dark closets are responsible for more heart attacks than expressions of unbridled delight. When the doorbell rings late at night, I'm under no illusion that it's the Publisher's Clearing House Prize Patrol!
This, most likely, goes back to our caveman past when a big, exciting surprise was apt to be something like an 800-pound,snarling, saber-toothed tiger about to rip the head from our shoulders. Surprises were usually bad news. (Think about this the next time you're crouching in the dark in somebody's front hall closet with their raincoats and umbrellas.) — Paul Powers

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope. — Andrew Marr

Thus the truth - that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and which is so natural to man - this truth, in order to force a way to man's consciousness, had to struggle not merely against the obscurity with which it was expressed and the intentional and unintentional distortions surrounding it, but also against deliberate violence, which by means of persecutions and punishments sought to compel men to accept religious laws authorized by the rulers and conflicting with the truth. — Leo Tolstoy

don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde — F Scott Fitzgerald

You know what we need? We need to get jobs, get the fuck out of that crazy house,' Natalie said, dipping a McNugget into her sauce.
Yeah, right. Jobs doing what? Our only skills are oral sex and restraining agitated psychotics. — Augusten Burroughs

There's the Holy Ghost and there's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can appear as other birds- sometimes as a swallow, sometimes a goldfinch and sometimes as a blue-tit." "How do you know him from an ordinary tit?" "He speaks." "How does he speak, in what language?" "Human language." "And what does he tell you?" "Why, to-day he told me that a fool would visit me and would ask me unseemly questions. You — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. — Arthur C. Clarke

Big deal ... the only cats that don't have three legs are the ones with two through zero legs. — Doug Benson

while they
discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.

Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of
any man
hearty and clean,
Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and
none shall be
less familiar than the rest. — Walt Whitman

But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It is another thing to give up so young. — Alex Flinn

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise ... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself. — Samuel Johnson