Sacralized 5th Quotes & Sayings

He talks and talks and talks. And if he isn't talking, he's smoking his smelly cigars all over the house. I'm so sick of the smell of cigar smoke I could just roll over and die."
"The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn't hold on to a cigar, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see our Zooey again."
There were several experienced verbal stunt pilots in the Glass family, but this last little remark perhaps Zooey alone was coordinated well enough to bring in safely over a telephone. Or so this narrator suggests. And Franny may have felt so, too. In any case, she suddenly knew that it was Zooey at the other end of the phone. — J.D. Salinger

Probably not. Their depth and our play right now ... it doesn't look too good. — Daniel Alfredsson

Beauty is not caused. It is. — Emily Dickinson

made some references to these sources within this book, What She Knew is entirely a work of fiction and all quotes and references are used fictitiously. — Gilly Macmillan

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.

But there are no adults. We own this mess. — Timothy Snyder

It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them. — Catherynne M Valente

Do I know that? How the hell can I possibly know that? Only a few hours earlier, Chris, my beloved husband of twenty years, jumped to his death off the roof of a parking garage a mile from our home. Cops came to the house in a pair to tell me, just like in the movies. Ding-dong, your husband's dead. Your life is over. Except it's not. — Amy Biancolli

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. — Ray Kroc

Progress is the ultimate motivation. — Tony Robbins

daily and hourly presence and keeping, were preached with the same distinctness and urgency — Andrew Murray

What God did, however, was subject his written word to the same historical process as he did with his incarnate Word, Jesus. The Bible is both a divine and human entity: divine in its inspiration and preservation, human in the sense of God's subjecting it to the historical process and entrusting it to the church. In this way, writes George Eldon Ladd, "the Bible is the Word of God given in the words of men in history. — Arthur G. Patzia

I know whom we must fight ... it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. — Philip Pullman

My father hated Negroes. — Langston Hughes