Nekst Astoria Quotes & Sayings

You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable. — Chuck Knox

Was nervous about seeing him, partly because I find him less interesting now than I did when we were both nineteen (unkind of me to admit, but can't we be honest about how people change?), — Emily St. John Mandel

One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Handbags are not important anymore," Connie admonished her. "It said so in Vogue. Right now it's all about having something no one else possesses. It's about the one of a kind. The unique. — Candace Bushnell

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space. — Patanjali

She wasn't used to kisses that were simultaneously startling and wonderful, casual and memorable. Her world was so much smaller than that. — Sarah Cross

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say. — David Levithan

But caveat lector: we do not read the Bible in order to reduce our lives to what is convenient to us or manageable by us - we want to get in on the great invisibles of the Trinity, the soaring adorations of the angels, the quirky cragginess of the prophets, and ... Jesus. — Eugene H. Peterson

PRAISE FOR 'THE JOURNEY HOME'
Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives quietly before God.
Loyal to family, lovers of God, servants in the Church, these unsung saints live everyday life as an example for us. David Hanneman is one such man. His story is exemplary and should be told to the world. He not only lived a noble life, but also suffered with heroism and grace as he passed into glory.
This is a story to encourage and bless us all. We are thankful to Joseph Hanneman for sharing his father and making his story known to us who need such examples to encourage us as we face the difficulties and challenges of life. — Stephen K. Ray

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh. — Ted Alexandro

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. — Toba Beta

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun
a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. — Borden Chase