Piatkowski Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Whatever your destination, you will be followed by your failings. — Ronald W. Pies

Finally, how much you should study doctrine depends on your schedule. — Anonymous

Do you have a sleeping bag?"
I stared at him. "No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of '06. — Kim Harrison

The night is a very bad time for questions to which there are no answers." Mr Badule looked at her. "You are very right, my sister. There is — Alexander McCall Smith

When we marvel at that blue marble in all its delicacy and frailty, and resolve to save the planet, we cast ourselves in a very specific role. That role is of a parent, the parent of the earth. But the opposite is the case. It is we humans who are fragile and vulnerable and the earth that is hearty and powerful, and holds us in its hands. In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely. That knowledge should inform all we do - especially — Naomi Klein

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber. — John Burroughs

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything. — John Gielgud

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! — Statius

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. — Marilynne Robinson

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually
without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about. — Lorraine Hansberry

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged. — Henry David Thoreau

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. — Quincy Jones

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow. — George H. W. Bush

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know. — Samm Levine