Pastoring Grief Quotes & Sayings

But not in "normal" people like me. They don't realize that evil lives on their street. Works in the cubicle next to them. Chats with them in the checkout line at CVS. Reads a paperback on the train next to them. Runs on a treadmill at their gym. Or marries their daughter. We're here, and we prey on you. We target you. We groom you. — Lisa Scottoline

I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. — Thomas Griffith

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet. — Kim Hyesoon

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream. — Cyril Connolly

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats. — Rachel Caine

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word. — Ariel Sharon

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons. — Harry Connick Jr.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. — Charlotte Lamb