Playatgila Quotes & Sayings

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation ... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art. — Robert Gober

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films. — Joan Allen

The effect of overworking; we miss sacred moments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world. — Gene Wolfe

Well, it is generally considered - though not always true - that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event it is false, and I have known that to be so in more than one circumstance , it is still accorded her in deference to her husband."
~Sherlock Holmes, with respect to aristocratic titles — Stephanie Osborn

Death has its beauty. It makes you see the eternity in every second; it makes you see every moment's perfection instead of searching an eternity for the perfect moment. Time moves differently - beautifully - for those who only have smidgens of it left. But there is no beauty in death for those left behind. — Layla Hagen

Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty. — Henry Stephens Salt

Sithspit! What's that?'
'That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn.'
'Well, it offends me. Turn it off.'
'It's a hundred thirty, hundred forty million klicks from here.'
'Go up in your X-wing and shoot it down for me. — Aaron Allston

Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before. — Frederick Lenz