Orsz Gos K Pz Si Jegyz K Quotes & Sayings

Like faith and hope, trust cannot be self-generated. I cannot simply will myself to trust. What outrageous irony: the one thing that I am responsible for throughout my life I cannot generate. The one thing I need to do I cannot do. But such is the meaning of radical dependence. It consists in theological virtues, in divinely ordained gifts. Why reproach myself for my lack of trust? Why waste time beating myself up for something I cannot affect? What does lie within my power is paying attention to the faithfulness of Jesus. That's what I am asked to do: pay attention to Jesus throughout my journey, remembering his kindnesses (Ps. 103:2). — Brennan Manning

But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty. — Thomas Pynchon

The faces of the others looked like aggregates of interchangeable features, every face oozing to blend into the anonymity of resembling all, and all looking as if they were melting. Rearden's face, with the sharp planes, the pale blue eyes, the ash-blond hair, had the firmness of ice; the uncompromising clarity of its lines made it look, among the others, as if he were moving through a fog, hit by a ray of light. — Ayn Rand

The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18. — Corin Tucker

CHAPTER IV - THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY — Victor Hugo

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. — John Gay

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into! — Stephen R. Covey

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear. — Rajneesh

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland. — Henny Youngman

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary. — David W. Earle

I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I've never had one that said both hello and good-bye. — Ann Aguirre

I'd say, Ceony," he said after swallowing, "had I not been present for the lessons, I'd think you'd found a way to enchant pasta." Ceony smiled. "You like it?" He nodded, scooping up another bite. "It tastes just as good as it smells. That's a sign of a well-rounded person. I should congratulate you." "On my person or my pasta?" - The Paper Magician — Charlie N. Holmberg

my imagination I am unfaithful to everybody, by the way, not just to you. — Philip Roth

Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take. — Don DeLillo

A teenage Filipino boy walked up to the car and just stood there, the way people do when disaster strikes. — Miranda July