Schippert Theresa Quotes & Sayings

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. — Antonio Porchia

I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different. — Dave Gahan

And when he saw the kid standing there looking looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world. — Cormac McCarthy

Less than a decade after the explosion of the first atom bomb the megamachine had expanded to a point where it began to dominate key areas of the whole economy of the United States: its system of control reached beyond the airfields, the rocket sites, the bomb factories, the universities, to a hundred other related areas, tying the once separate and independent enterprises to a central organization whose irrational and humanly subversive policies ensured the still further expansion of the megamachine. Financial subventions, research grants, educational subsidies, all worked unceasingly for the 'Life, Prosperity, Health' of the new rulers, headed by Goliaths in brass armor bellowing threats of defiance and destruction at the entire world. In a short time, the original military-industrial-scientific elite became the supreme Pentagon of Power, for it incorporated likewise both the bureaucratic and the educational establishments. — Lewis Mumford

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics. — Edward Snowden

It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus. — Therese De Lisieux

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Err on the side of awesome. — Brandon Sanderson

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. — Christopher Hitchens

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily
choosing love, then choosing it again ... how loving and being in love could be so different. — Sue Monk Kidd

Sneaked another glance at myself in the mirror. For the first time, I did not see a dishwasher. — Jean Kwok

And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process. — Bell Hooks

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung! — Sam Storms

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial. — Glenn Ligon