Page 165 Quotes & Sayings

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used' ... 'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal. — C.S. Lewis

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't
and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown. — Rebecca Solnit

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . — Ursula K. Le Guin

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. — Joan Didion

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet. — Robert Wilson Lynd

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her - Page 165 — Maggie Stiefvater

Draw close to Him and let your marriage be the overflow of that. When things are right with God, your marriage can actually become what it was designed to be. Peace comes when both parties come to an agreement. Agree on God - agree on His holiness and the supremacy He deserves in your lives. — Francis Chan

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand. — Edmund Wilson

When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty. — Stanislas Wawrinka

IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD — John Irving

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. — Tig Notaro

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value. — Nat King Cole

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal

Don't let anyone, especially your doctor, tell you that A-Fib isn't that serious, or you should just learn to live with it. (Beat Your A-Fib, page 165) — Steve S. Ryan

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race. — Walt Whitman

To become immortal, and then to die. — Jean-Luc Godard

Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus. — Ben Carson

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau