Reconciliations Sentence Quotes & Sayings

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine. — Yukio Mishima

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it. — Nora Ephron

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite. — Samuel Freeman Miller

Learning is not cumpulsory ... neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming

The way of Jesus is thus not a set of beliefs about Jesus. That people ever thought it was is strange, when we think about it - as if one entered new life by believing certain things to be true, or as if the only people who can be saved are those who know the word "Jesus". Thinking that way virtually amounts to salvation by syllables.
Rather, the way of Jesus is the way of death and resurrection - the path of transition and transformation from an old way of being to a new way of being. To use the language of incarnation that is so central to John, Jesus incarnates the way. Incarnation means embodiment. Jesus is what the way embodied in a human life looks like. — Marcus J. Borg

We learn everything from experience, and what we learn we can't share or keep. — Marty Rubin

I was making my mind as blank as possible, you see, since the past was so embarrassing and the future so terrifying. — Kurt Vonnegut

You like to claim that you're in charge of the world, but it's as if the world hasn't noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you. — Trish Mercer

But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless. — Charlaine Harris

I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman. — David Finch

Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles. — David Brainerd

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself ... There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way. — Stephen Colbert

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means. — Mark Lawrence