Netties Fine Quotes & Sayings

Every heart has its own skeletons. — Leo Tolstoy

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot

In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring. — James Stephens

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me. — Glenn Howerton

Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet he also cautions, "Wherever the notion of paradise exists, so does the idea that it was lost. Paradise is always in the past." The title Goat Song is a literal rendering of the Greek word traghoudhia, tragedy. Reading it, I was reminded of Leo Marx's analysis of Thoreau's Walden. In The Machine in the Garden, Marx names Thoreau a tragic, if complex pastoralist. After failing to make an agrarian living raising beans for commercial trade (although his intent was always more allegorical than pecuniary), Thoreau ends Walden by replacing the pastoral idea where it originated: in literature. Paradise, Marx concludes, is not ultimately to be found at Walden Pond; it is to be found in the pages of Walden. — Heather Paxson

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him. — Frederick Sanger

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all. — Karl Barth

Do not look at mirage and look inside mirror — V.V. Rao

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember ... when life made more sense ... Take me back, take me back, take me way back ... to when life made more sense. — Van Morrison

At the Vatican, Mr. Putin and Francis were expected to focus on the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Syria, an issue of mutual concern. — Anonymous

The older you get, the more theories you make up about things. — Jameson Currier

I now believe there is a God ... I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together. — Antony Flew

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey. — Lewis F. Powell Jr.