Patalastas Quotes & Sayings

He was witnessing an insane relay race in which each contestant ran faster and longer than the last, arriving nowhere but his own destruction — John Le Carre

I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be. — Carew Papritz

Be master of your destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita

when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man - they only want a vote. — George Eliot

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it. — Elias Canetti

There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures. — Philip Clayton

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go. — Charles Spurgeon

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do. — Usain Bolt

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions. — Brian Tracy

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. — William Beveridge