Lavenue Blog Quotes & Sayings

I like to prowl ordinary places
and taste the people-
from a distance. — Charles Bukowski

When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows. — R.A. Dickey

To pursue selfish personal ideas is not wise enough — Sunday Adelaja

I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy. — Ernest Hemingway,

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. — Keith Ellison

Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game. — Gaby Sanchez

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. — Michael Holroyd

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. — Tom Jenkinson

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and
prayer. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Those who are in vyavahar (worldly interactions), and who are indeed conducting themselves in the vyavahar; are known as worldly people [sansaari]. And 'Siddha' (absolutely enlightened Ones without a body) are not in the worldly conduct whatsoever. Therefore, they are known as the 'non-worldly' people [asansaari]! Then there are those who are in the worldly life and yet whose conduct is not in the worldly life at all; such 'Gnani Purush (the enlightened ones)' are called, 'non-worldly' (asansaari). — Dada Bhagwan

It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors or flaws, but the blank-out by which you attempt to evade them - it is not any sort of Original Sin or unknown prenatal deficiency, but the knowledge and fact of your basic default, of suspending your mind, of refusing to think. Fear and guilt are your chronic emotions, they are real and you do deserve them, but they don't come from the superficial reasons you invent to disguise their cause, not from your "selfishness," weakness or ignorance, but from a real and basic threat to your existence; fear, because you have abandoned your weapon of survival, guilt, because you know you have done it volitionally. — Ayn Rand