Obremski Obituary Quotes & Sayings

And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal. — George MacDonald

Changing a man was never a goal of mine, and I disliked women who fell in love with the idea of a man only to then spend the rest of their lives trying to change him to be what they wanted. — Nina Levine

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak - and speak in such a way that people will remember it. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens. — Marcus J. Borg

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it. — Darin Strauss

What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort. — Baha'u'llah

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about. — Dallas Willard

I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus would hang out with prostitutes. I would always focus on the prostitutes. — Craig Seymour

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write. — Nell Freudenberger

Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground. — Stephen King