Parngraphic Quotes & Sayings

Mrs Wilder stood passively with her tray, unaware of Royal fondling her, partly because she had been molested by so many men during the past months, but also because the sexual assault itself had ceased to have any meaning. — J.G. Ballard

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today. — Elisabeth Shue

Creation has been taken down a very different path than We [God] desired. In your world the value of the individual is constantly weighed against the survival of the system - whether political, economical, social, or religious - any system, actually. First one person, and then a few and finally even many are easily sacrificed for the good and ongoing existence of that system. In one form or another this lies behind every struggle for power every prejudice, every war, and every abuse of relationship. The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal. — Wm. Paul Young

I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me. — Box Brown

I not only want to understand God's revelations, I want to be changed by them. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. — Alice Meynell

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret. — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are! — Tennessee Williams

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. — Simone Weil

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake. — Jack Kerouac

Where did they get those screams, Katniss? — Suzanne Collins

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example. — Colson Whitehead

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. — Stephen Covey

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it. — Chuck Close