Questela Quotes & Sayings

I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom large areas of doubt and uncertainty resided. — Jennifer Worth

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER — Eric Metaxas

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. — Margery Sharp

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B." — Devendra Banhart

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. — George Santayana

I guess when you're one of the richest people on the planet, you can buy yourself a window that never shows you anything ugly. — Mira Grant

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage

The dark and the snow are too thick for him to see beyond the first trees. He's been in there before at this time, when the dark shuts down in early winter. But now he pays attention, he notices something about the bush that he thinks he has missed those other times. How tangled up in itself it is, how dense and secret. It's not a matter of one tree after another, it's all the trees together, aiding and abetting one another and weaving into one thing. A transformation, behind your back.
There's another name for the bush, and this name is stalking around in his mind, in and out of where he can almost grasp it. But not quite. It's a tall word that seems ominous but indifferent. — Alice Munro

Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. — Vladimir Nabokov

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. — Anton Chekhov

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. — Robert Wilson

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. — Mike Pence

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion. — Marilyn Johnson