Pestilential Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow. — Dwight L. Moody

I'm told women scream when they give birth because of the intense pain. And I think about how easily life can just slide away, like thawing ice. And how it's only the living that scream. — Peter Hedges

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own. — Cliff Richard

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other. — Sai Baba

We can't change anything in the past. All we can do now is take comfort in each other, and the truth that we never need to go back to our dark places. — Emily Faith

Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood. — Mahasi Sayadaw

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. — Jose Marti

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are. — David Suchet

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion. — Douglas Rushkoff

The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy. — Thomas Merton

Adam Trask to Cathy: "You know about the ugliness in people. You showed me the pictures. You use all the sad, weak parts of a man, and God knows he has them." ... "But you-yes, that's right- you don't know about the rest. You don't believe I brought you the letter because I don't want your money. You don't believe I love you. And the men who come to you here with their ugliness, the men in the pictures- you don't believe those men could have goodness and beauty in them. You see only one side, and you think-more than that, you're sure- that's all there is.'
" ... I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the colour green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only part of a human. I can't do anything about that. ut I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see or feel it. That would be horrible. — John Steinbeck

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things. — Cornelia Funke

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't. — Anthony Hopkins