Lunchbreak Quotes & Sayings

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest. — Idries Shah

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly. — James Nesbitt

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world. — Azzedine Alaia

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot

I have no life but this,
To lead it here;
Nor any death, but lest
Dispelled from there;
Nor tie to earths to come,
Nor action new,
Except through this extent,
The realm of you. — Emily Dickinson

The dimples spread across his face again and Megan couldn't help but melt a little — Debra Chapoton

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle? — Sergio Chejfec

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H.P. Lovecraft

Heat magazine - the tittering idiot's lunchbreak-pamphlet-of-choice -
has caused a bad stink by printing a collection of comedy stickers in its latest issue. Said stickers are clearly designed to be stuck round the
fringes of computer monitors by the magazine's bovine readership in a desperate bid to transform their veal-fattening workstation pen into a miniature
Chuckle Kingdom and thereby momentarily distract them from the bleak futility of their wasted, Heat-reading lives — Charlie Brooker

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country. — Philip Yancey

I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate. — Harold Lederman

Part of my job is to make the tough calls. — Katharine Weymouth

People who expect the world to end very soon, and are planning on being raptured out of it, are not likely to be concerned about dominion over the earth, nor the application of God's law to the whole of life. Moreover, if such people believe, as they do, that Satan rules the world, they will regard their responsibilities to the world as negligible, and the world as something to escape from. — Rousas John Rushdoony