Pudiendo Quotes & Sayings

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. — Walker Percy

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. — Joan Didion

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference. — Lucinda Roy

It is true that not even Christ is seen, but he exists; he is risen, he is alive, he is close to us, more truly than the most enamored husband is close to his wife. Here is the crucial point: to think of Christ not as a person of the past, but as the risen and living Lord, with whom I can speak, whom I can even kiss if I so wish, certain that my kiss does not end on the paper or on the wood of a crucifix, but on a face and on the lips of living flesh (even though spiritualized), happy to receive my kiss. — Raniero Cantalamessa

He wanted to make her feel good. She couldn't remember the last time someone had done that. He — Mark Haddon

A tree never feels how much fragrance it spreads. It's just its nature to be like that. — Moazzam Shaikh

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. — Gary Numan

In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. — Amy Tan

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer. — Martin Luther

green and cold and waiting for fingers of sunshine to creep up from the tracks and make them all come alive. — Paula Hawkins

Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead. — Ram Dass

Our national obsession with sex (and if you don't think there is a national obsession with sex, just browse the magazine racks in the local chain bookstore) is really nothing more than a profound spiritual longing in disguise: the desire to exhaust all other desires and feel loved and sated, at peace with our fragmented modern selves, linked to those around us. At peace, at rest. I wonder, sometimes, if the same deep desire lies at the heart of addiction to drugs, to drink, to eating, to work: are we all just desperately looking for some strategy that will get us past the shoals of modern existence and safely into that imagined, calm port? — Roland Merullo

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for. — Michelangelo

A story's no good unless it pisses somebody off. — Jere' M. Fishback