Riflessioni In Margine Quotes & Sayings

I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. — J.D. Salinger

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? — Young-Ha Kim

The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way
is not cause or justification to discriminate. — Chuck Robb

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra. — Kristin Hannah

Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day! — William Wordsworth

The animals in the zoo-those that had not been stolen in previous administrations-were slain or left to starve. One zealous, perhaps mad, Taliban jumped into a bear's cage and cut off his nose, reputedly because the animal's "beard" was not long enough. Another fighter, intoxicated by events and his own power, leaped into the lion's den and cried out, "I am the lion now!" The lion killed him. Another Taliban solider threw a grenade into the den, blinding the animal. These two, the noseless bear and the blind lion, together with two wolves, were the only animals that survived Taliban rule. — Lawrence Wright

If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being. — Ludwig Von Mises

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds. — Mary E. DeMuth

The home in which you reside it not forever. — Kate Bernheimer

You need to come with a goddamn YouTube instructional video. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men. — Virginia Woolf

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates. — Marcel Proust