Oxidizing Material Quotes & Sayings

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid ... Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. — Coleman Dowell

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. — Emmanuel Jal

She's chain-smoking the whole time and leering at us like lambs being lead to some biblical character with a hard-on. — Logan Ryan Smith

Every religion is good - every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it. — Daniel O'Connell

As Scripture presents it, the Word itself - wielded by the heavenly agent (the Holy Spirit) and the earthly ambassador (the preacher) - does what it threatens in the law and promises in the gospel. The Word itself does this work, not because it provides an occasion for us to do something but simply by its being used by God according to his own sovereign will. — Michael S. Horton

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. — Flea

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all
Bolted against me.
Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,
Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,
I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence
Worse than Abiram's.
Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice
Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong;
I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, am
Buried above ground. — William Cowper

We can easily become loyal to our suffering ... but it's not the end of the path. — Jack Kornfield

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade. — Jimmy Fallon

Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. — Stephen King

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. — Susan Estrich

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. — Max Lucado

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame. — Phil Ochs

View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate. — Henepola Gunaratana