Popovich Wife Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never be able to see the city of London without seeing it through the overarching scrim of every description of it I had read before. When I turn the corner into a small, quiet, leafy square, am I really seeing it fresh, or am I both looking and remembering? [ ... ]
This is both the beauty and excitement of London, and its cross to bear, too. There is a tendency for visitors to turn the place into a theme park, the Disney World of social class, innate dignity, crooked streets, and grand houses, with a cavalcade of monarchs as varied and cartoony as Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and, at least in the opinion of various Briths broadhseets, Goofy.
They come, not to see what London is, or even what it was, but to confirm a kind of picture-postcard view of both, all red telephone kiosks and fog-wreathed alleyways. — Anna Quindlen

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. — Philip Sidney

When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit. — Angela Doll Carlson

San Antonio is the patron saint of things that have gone missing. — Jodi Picoult

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches. — Fred Allen

If the person were to withhold something or reserve the possibility of deciding otherwise in the future, by this very fact he or she would not be giving totally.52 — Pope John Paul II

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory. — Catherine Of Genoa

She never came back after mid-term break; according to the Automator, 'unforeseen circumstances' had forced her to extend her holiday. Every day Howard sees her classes trooping despondently from the Geography Room to the study hall, or carrying votive bundles of cardboard and paper to the recycling bins, their faces anxious, hopeful, like Indians doing a rain dance. He knows how they feel. Since mid-term he's existed in a constant state of tension, braced against every moment as the one that might finally restore her. Even out of school, even on his own, shopping in the supermarket, sitting at the traffic lights, he finds himself holding his breath. But the days are a series of ghost pregnancies, delivering nothing. — Paul Murray

The Non-Corporeal Soul increases tolerance and acceptance of the pain sensation, which paradoxically automatically reduces pain's noxiousness and intolerableness. The more room for pain, the less it hurts. For the Non-Corporeal Soul, pain and suffering are not something to flee, but a catalyst for the authentication of humanity and the generation of human kindness. — Ted Kaptchuk

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A healthy dialogue is always good. — Michael Hersch

Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group. — Will Durant

This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds — Don DeLillo