Picchionis Iga Quotes & Sayings

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases ... but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book. — Robert Frost

What if the possibilities of Zion were already here, and its scattered elements all about us? A child's embrace, a companion's caress, a friend's laughter are its materials. Our capacity to mourn another's pain, like God's tears for His children; our desire to lift our neighbor from his destitution, like Christ's desire to lift us from our sin and sorrow - these are not to pass away when the elements shall melt with fervent heat. They are the stuff and substance of any Zion we build, any heaven we inherit. God is not radically Other, and neither is His heaven. — Terryl L. Givens

If someone picks up a third party and throws him at you down at the bottom of a deep well ... may you use your ray gun to disintegrate the falling body before it crushes and kills you? — Robert Nozick

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice. — Watchman Nee

That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me. — Rachel Cohn

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make — Oche Otorkpa

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN — Daniel H. Pink

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. — Neil Gaiman

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t? — Quentin Crisp

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. — Simone Weil

North Carolina is temperate and populated with well-meaning people; therefore I will engage in oral sex with another man. — David Sedaris

If you do not know your purpose, you have detective work to do. The clues will be in your life to date, in the things you are good at, the things you enjoy doing, in your dreams and your daydreams. — Bill Harvey

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. — Brigitte Bardot