Markevich House Quotes & Sayings

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. — Zig Ziglar

I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a bit longer. Mother keeps telling me I should go and freeze some eggs. Not terribly romantic, is it? — Honeysuckle Weeks

The upshot is a hermeneutics of suspicion; if someone tells you that he or she has converted to unbelief because of science, don't believe them. Because what's usually captured the person is not scientific evidence per se, but the form of science: "Even where the conclusions of science seem to be doing the work of conversion, it is very often not the detailed findings so much as the form" (p. 362). Indeed, "the appeal of scientific materialism is not so much the cogency of its detailed findings as that of the underlying epistemological stance, and that for ethical reasons. It is seen as the stance of maturity, of courage, of manliness, over against childish fears and sentimentality" (p. 365). — James K.A. Smith

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes. — Jeanette Winterson

The moment weighs down on me, threatening to unstitch my seams and expose me to the world. — Rebecca Berto

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. — John The Apostle

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr. — Hugo Chavez

Believe this, he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him. — Annette Curtis Klause

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else. — Suzy Kassem

In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it. — Frederick Lenz

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away. — Paul Feyerabend