Panopea Abrupta Quotes & Sayings

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes
with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating. — Michael Crichton

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. — Loretta Lynn

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven. — Navonne Johns

We are always at our best when compassion enables us to recognize the unique pressures and singular stories of the people on the other side of our conflicts. — Desmond Tutu

You will meet people who'll change the course of your life forever. Learn when to hold onto yourself and when to fly directly into the storm. — Gabby Rivera

These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for painting them is probably of no significance, I am trying to put a name to it here, as an articulation, parallel to the pictures, as it were, of my disquiet and of my opinion. — Gerhard Richter

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend. — Patricia Reilly Giff

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order. — William A. Dembski

Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation. — Robert V. Taylor

Stay alert!" I told Blackjack. "I've got an idea." Oh, I hate your ideas. — Rick Riordan