Pantuckova Itf Quotes & Sayings

From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing, a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: "You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God." The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk's words console, too. For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward. That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps. — Lauren F. Winner

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. — P.G. Wodehouse

It's hard to imagine, seeing how crowded the sky looks tonight, how far away one star is from another. Like, people, really. We can appear to be standing right next to each other, and yet in our minds, we can be thousands of miles away, lost to the outer reaches. But we're all together in the same black soup, which makes us all related somehow. — Kathleen Kent

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week. — Art Bell

Life is just like crawling out of a cave, in the cave you will learn something new — Andrew Lee

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. — Terry Pratchett

Her warm breath, her cheeks wet with tears. All the lost possibilities, all the time that was never to return. — Haruki Murakami

People don't change because you want them to. They aren't clay, ready to be molded. — Amanda Grace

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie. — Richard Gere

You have established the earth and it continues. All things stand this day according to your directions. For all things are your servants (Ps. 119:91). God himself loves the earth dearly and never takes his hands off it. And because he loves it and it is good, our care of it is also eternal work and a part of our eternal life. — Dallas Willard

You remind me of him. He was the best man I have ever known. — C.S. Pacat

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all. — Francis Alys

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us. — Sonia Johnson

Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns! — Pat Buchanan