Paktia University Quotes & Sayings

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way. — David Cook

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. — Saint Augustine

Sunday morning sneaks up on us
like dawn, like resurrection, like the sun that rises a ribbon at a time. We expect a trumpet and a triumphant entry, but as always, God surprises us by showing up in ordinary things: in bread, in wine, in water, in words, in sickness, in healing, in death, in a manger of hay, in a mother's womb, in an empty tomb. p.258 — Rachel Held Evans

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. — Mary Shelley

These women who move through this landscape, holding themselves safe amid the terrible and sudden dangers, holding their limbs close to their bodies to lessen their profile, to lessen the places life can catch at them, and still maintaining movement, and still attending to men even when they elect to live a life apart from them, we can rely, he thinks, on having these women among us, rely on their courage to keep us brave. — Claire Robertson

What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. — Victor Hugo

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. — Allen Klein

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations. — Scott Cohen

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate. — Swami Vivekananda

As the years passed the ugly boy grew up into an ugly youth, and before he knew it, into an ugly middle-aged man. — Haruki Murakami

[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea. — Nikolai Gogol

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse. — Willie Aames

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak. — George Carlin

One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used. — Pete Docter

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. — Lord Byron