Roeders Maquoketa Quotes & Sayings

Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God's unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome. — Pope Francis

Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious ... in a word, ridiculous. Right out of Kafka: the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing is the person who is ridiculous. [ ... ] Modern party-dance is an evil thing. — David Foster Wallace

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim. — Aleister Crowley

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child. — Claire Tomalin

We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don't) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose our jobs we want to take comfort in the idea that God doesn't give us more than we can handle, but really, how can we? We have absolutely no idea what God has given us or what it might be for. We haven't talked to Him in ages. — Heather Choate Davis

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up. — David Campese

Sal could have killed me for trying to escape the mines, but he didn't. I'd certainly given him plenty of reasons to do it before then as well. I had to help him now. The — Jennifer A. Nielsen

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future. — Roman Payne

All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame. — Craig Schaefer

He's a rich, powerful man. Rich, powerful men get away with things all the time. It's the law of capitalism. It's especially an issue when those rich, powerful men have ties to men who are richer and more powerful. — Laurelin Paige

Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels ... — Virginia Woolf

I could either succumb to the nightmares I've raised or paint them. — Thomm Quackenbush