Overture Wine Quotes & Sayings

Evil and suffering are real ... They aren't an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we all share in its brokenness. Most of all, we share in its tragic legacy of disease and death. — Billy Graham

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling. — Roman Polanski

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. — Walt Whitman

Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But what are their tastes based on? Do they tend to choose work that most resembles theirs? — Amy Tan

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died. — C.S. Lewis

But even if governments adjust their policies to a more individualistic age, the on-demand economy clearly imposes more risk on individuals. People will have to master multiple skills if they are to survive in such a world - and keep those skills up to date. — Anonymous

If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. — Harvey MacKay

Someone has to stand up for wimps. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. — Jonathan Lethem

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst. — Albert Schweitzer

Only food and water are more important than music and privacy, — Gloria Steinem

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated. — Jeanette Winterson

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother. — James D. Watson