Scopulicola Quotes & Sayings

amazement, shading into dismay; a shallow horror sensation that cold springs of personal fear swiftly deepened. — Truman Capote

Life's a bastard then you die. Then death seems determined to be a bigger bastard by setting demons loose on you. — Ian Atkinson

I want my films to be seen everywhere. — Anurag Kashyap

It becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith. — Dalai Lama

The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes. — Richard Alley

A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum. — Lloyd Jones

It's you I'm concerned about. You are letting your fear come between you and getting better. — Garth Nix

In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other. — Victor Hugo

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. — Honore De Balzac

in 3000 b.c....in spain, france, the british isles and old europe, the lives of people centered on nature and motherhood. they honored mother nature, mother earth and mother creator. women were revered as the givers of life. as creators, they were thought to be connected to diety. statues of the goddesses of these early people were of full-breasted women with bodies clearly depicting the ballooning abdomen of women about to give birth. these primal people regarded birthing as the highest manifestation of nature. when a woman gave birth, everyone gathered around her in the temple for the "celebration of life." birthing was a religious rite, and not at all the painful ordeal it came to be years later. — Marie F. Mongan

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [ ... ] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us. — Thich Nhat Hanh

[T]hose most precious memories are hidden in the safest place of all. Safe from fire or floods or war. In stories. Stories remembered, until they are ready to be told. Or perhaps simply ready to be heard. — Aminatta Forna

The depiction of the divine family is one of the key expressions of the greatest word of power, the Unpronounceable Name of God, or Tetragrammaton. This fourfold name is comprised of the Hebrew letters Yod, Heh, Vav, Heh corresponding respectively to the Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter. The correct pronunciation of Tetragrammaton, which was said to be immensely powerful and capable of destroying the universe, has been lost for centuries. Significantly, if the Yod, symbolising God the Father, is removed from this name, we are left with Heh Vav Heh, which spells Eve, the first woman of the Book of Genesis and some of the Gnostic texts. — Sorita D'este

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority. — M. Russell Ballard