Pyengnyc Quotes & Sayings

The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham

Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them. — Howard Da Silva

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer. — Maude Royden

For it is beyond doubt that there is nothing which more shocks our reason than to say that the sin of the first man has rendered guilty those, who, being so removed from this source, seem incapable of participation in it. This transmission does not only seem to us impossible, it seems also very unjust. For what is more contrary to the rules of our miserable justice than to damn eternally an infant incapable of will, for a sin wherein he seems to have so little a share, that it was committed six thousand years before he was in existence? Certainly nothing offends us more rudely than this doctrine; and yet, without this mystery, the most incomprehensible of all, we are incomprehensible to ourselves. The knot of our condition takes its twists and turns in this abyss, so that man is more inconceivable without this mystery than this mystery is inconceivable to man. — Blaise Pascal

At the other side
of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times
the size of our own sun exploded
and vanished, leaving a small green spot
on the astronomer's retina
as he stood in the great open dome
of my heart with no one to tell. — Ted Kooser

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion. — Mahatma Gandhi

It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys. — David Grisman

The Universe isn't just a light show, they keep it running during the day too. — Terry Pratchett

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. — Bjork

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something. — Cheri Oteri

The service to God is our service to humanity — Sunday Adelaja

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking. — Albert Schweitzer

There are risks you can't afford to take and there are risks you can't afford NOT to take."
Elizabeth g. Arthur — Elizabeth G. Arthur

This was the moment when the 20th century really began, in all its viciousness and bloody-mindedness. Me, I had imagination in spades, though. I saw myself as a corpse, swept into this stream of fools against my will along with thousands, millions of other corpses, and I didn't like it one little bit.
The other guys, still waiting on the platform at the Gare de l'Est, already saw themselves throwing back a well-earned beer on Alexanderplatz.
Only the mothers really knew. They knew the babies in their arms were tomorrow's war orphans, and the cattle cars (8 horses, 40 men) were nothing but rail-mounted coffins joined end to end and headed for military cemeteries. — Jacques Tardi

I have stolen the show many times. — Leigh Lezark