Rotunded Quotes & Sayings

I am not alone, in my aloneness. — T. Scott McLeod

We live in a world convinced that security is the most reliable context for freedom. The bitter irony of this conviction is that the havens of security we create are unable to provide the freedom we seek. The quest for national, economic, or personal security too often generates compulsive patterns of life at the expense of genuine freedom. Christian tradition offers an alternative. In biblical perspective, it is obedience rather than security that forms the proper context for freedom. Thus, the Christian vision of freedom is focused through the lens of a paradox: "Whoever cares for his own safety is lost; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake, he will find his true self" (Matt. 16:25, NEB). - John S. Mogabgab, "Editor's Introduction," Weavings (May/June 1988) — Rueben P. Job

Everything else, everything, is just human vanity, the dash on the headstone between the day we're born and the day we die. — Victor Bevine

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. — Albert Einstein

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! — William Cowper

Neal lowered his eyebrows, tenderly, like he was untangling something that might fall apart in his hands. He opened his mouth to speak, but Georgie leaned in — Rainbow Rowell

I've been to weddings and I've been to wakes in either setting Love takes no breaks. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you. — Nuno Bettencourt

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau