Renrenshipin Quotes & Sayings

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo. — Theodore Levitt

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister. — Irvine Welsh

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon. — Ai Weiwei

If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong. — Karin Slaughter

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child. — Ellen J. Barrier

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up. — Haruki Murakami

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference. — Suzanne Harper

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. — Walter Dean Myers

In his person, life, death and resurrection, Jesus Christ is the 'form of God'. As presented in the New Testament writings, the words, actions and sufferings of Jesus form an aesthetic unity, held together by the 'style' of unconditional love. Love is always beautiful, because it expresses the self-diffusiveness of being, and so is touched by being's radiance, the pulchrum. But the unconditional, gracious, sacrificial love of Jesus Christ expresses not just the mystery of being - finite being - but the mystery of the Source of being, the transcendent communion of love which we call the Trinity.25 Thus through the Gestalt Christi, the love which God is shines through to the world. This is Balthasar's basic intuition. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — Shunryu Suzuki

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating. — Jenny Diski

I almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law. — Margaret Atwood

If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me. — Anna Hempstead Branch

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts! — Elinor Glyn