Metrolyrics In My Bones Quotes & Sayings

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile? — N. T. Wright

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail ... — Sophie Kinsella

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ... — Heinrich Heine

Life is great. Cheese makes it better. — Avery Aames

[ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226 — Stephanie Dowrick

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution. — Eugene V. Debs

And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. — Andre Agassi

A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say. — Georges Perec

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car. — Donna Shalala

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus. — Donald Miller

We rationalize, we dissimilate, we pretend: we pretend that modern medicine is a rational science, all facts, no nonsense, and just what it seems. But we have only to tap its glossy veneer for it to split wide open, and reveal to us its roots and foundations, its old dark heart of metaphysics, mysticism, magic, and myth. Medicine is the oldest of the arts, and the oldest of the sciences: would one not expect it to spring from the deepest knowledge and feelings we have? — Oliver Sacks

We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two," Lowell suggested. — Matthew Pearl

Was that you, Pooky Bear? — Susan Ee

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins
as do all worthy stories
with a goat — John Scalzi

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. — Haruki Murakami