Pempelfort Cafe Quotes & Sayings

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we're mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We're not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating's sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list. — Mary DeTurris Poust

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it. — Gwen Stefani

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself. — Chinua Achebe

Wanted that to be my bedroom," he says. "It'd be so easy to sneak out at night to TP yards, egg cars, and punch people." Yes, Stevie has an active social life. — James Patterson

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then. — Charles Spurgeon

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves. — Jean De La Bruyere

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears. — Steven Tyler

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones. — Dorothea Dix

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
— Edward Young

All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur. — Sigmund Freud

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — H.L. Mencken