Prolyl Quotes & Sayings

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding) — Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

The windshield wipers are pushed up so they won't freeze to the glass and a robin just landed on the tip of one, staring beady-eyed at what we both hope is the great giving-up. The field freezes and unfreezes. It's snowing but it's a spineless snow, sugar on top of defrosted mud. There's life under there. The robin took off and the wiper blade twanged like a plucked string.

Everything's coming alive. — Kate Inglis

You ask some people to say grace and that's it! The food gets cold but their prayer doesn't end. — Paul Silway

I'm in battle mode. Shut down. Hard. I'm not Hunter anymore. I'm Lance Corporal Lee, USMC. Semper Fi, bitches. — Jasinda Wilder

First I'm taking your sexy ass to the shower. After that, I'm taking you to bed and making love to you until you're so exhausted that you can't help but fall asleep. I know how your mind works Miss Cooper, and I know that if I don't wear you out you'll be up all night thinking about what could have happened. You got very little sleep last night, we made love for hours this afternoon and then we threw some unexpected travel and a hell of a lot of emotion onto the menu. You need to be loved hard so that you can get some real sleep. — Ella Fox

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others. — Stanley A. McChrystal

You will find your person. Sometimes it may confuse you because they're not shiny like a movie the way you imagines, but you'll know by the calm they bring. — Unknown

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right. — George Santayana

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random. — John Guare

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. — May Sarton

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them. — Philip Sington

Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit. — Richard J. Foster

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend. — Robert Dodsley

Technically, we're all half centaur. — Nick Offerman