Leskinen Kristi Quotes & Sayings

After all, isn't life always a matter of picking out the beautiful from the hideous?"
"If only all things were beautiful," Pere said.
What then, dear friend? We strive to increase beauty in this world of ours. But we'll never eliminate the ugly. Should we even hope to? You're a master painter. Isn't the figure meaningless without ground? Without ugliness for contrast, how can we perceive beauty? Isn't it ugliness that gives beauty meaning? — Victor Milan

What if you should forget yourself in the excitement and just peddle straight through the park and out the other end?' she warns. 'If you keep your feet on the pedals and don't stop, where might you end up?'

The idea appeals to Maud more than she can say. She doesn't want to know where she may 'end up'. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish. — Criss Angel

For he who has once had to listen will listen always, whether he knows he will never hear anything again, or whether he does not. In other words, they like other words, no doubt about it, silence once broken will never again be whole. — Samuel Beckett

With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304) — Boyd K. Packer

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls. — Greg Brenneman

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. — Gertrude Stein

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here. — N.D. Wilson

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas

I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes. — Frank Portman

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?' — Andrew P. Harris

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly. — Pope John Paul II

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music. — Michiel Huisman