Opresident Quotes & Sayings

Nothing comes into existence nor does anything disappear. Nothing is eternal, nor has anything any end. Nothing is identical or differentiated. Nothing moves hither and thither. — Tom Hoover

A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have imagined that the same Lord would become one of us and walk with us, be present with us, present in His Church, present in the Eucharist, present in His Word, present in the poor, He is present, walking with us. And this is closeness: the shepherd close to his flock, close to his sheep, whom he knows, one by one. — Pope Francis

I seek only friends who bleed and sweat and laugh and cry. Don't fear your humanity; it is your best offering. — Jen Hatmaker

That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse. — David Levithan

No one wants advice - only corroboration. — John Steinbeck

But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals. — Catherynne M Valente

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' — Cesare Lombroso

So my wife said she read this article in a magazine and she said: You know, maybe you're suffering from premature ejaculation. Yeah, does it look like I'm suffering? Those aren't tears on your belly. — Robert Schimmel

My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books. — Geraldine McCaughrean

Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving down deeper into your words?
No, it's more like diving down through your words
past them, and way further down into someplace out.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether you're naked or not, since the next thing is, you leave your body totally behind and just go off into your mind. A whole other part of your mind. — Peter Gould

If I could die now, he thought; peacefully, gently, without a tremor or a crying out. If I could be with her. If I could believe I would be with her. His — Richard Matheson