Nightwood At The Mount Quotes & Sayings

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. — Jimmy Carter

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life. — Benjamin Bratt

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory. — Andre Breton

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted. — Roger Zelazny

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day. — Virginia Woolf

was like he'd lost a baseball game, his dog, and his last hundred bucks in the same day. — Annabeth Albert

Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary! — Osho

I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching, as we know it, is a tragically broken endeavor. The value of our practices-including preaching-ought to be judged by their effects on our communities and the ways in which they help us move toward life with God. — Doug Pagitt

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. — Isobelle Carmody

It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century. — Jay Parini

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it. — Ambrose Bierce