Preferiran Quotes & Sayings

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence. — Eugene Kennedy

I used to measure the heavens
Now the Earth's shadows I measure
My mind was in the heavens,
Now the shadow of my body rests here — Johannes Kepler

Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life. — Catherine McKenzie

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg. — Dean Koontz

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. — Samuel Richardson

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine. — Jodi Picoult

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don't know who to fear. Isn't that why god was invented? — Victor Robert Lee

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens. — Stephen Colbert

It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10 — John Owen

You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same. — Bob Dylan

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists. — Theodor W. Adorno

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard. — Richard M. Nixon

Condemnation is a tool of the enemy, but conviction is God's means of bringing us to repentance. — Hope D. Blackwell