Sept 1st Quotes & Sayings

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul? — Horace

Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women. — Gabrielle Giffords

Give me time"

"For you, always. — Lauren DeStefano

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once. — T. S. Eliot

What does it mean to offer something up? Those who did so were convinced that they could insert these little annoyances into Christ's great "compassion" so that they somehow became part of the treasury of compassion so greatly needed by the human race. In this way, even the small inconveniences of daily life could acquire meaning and contribute to the economy of good and of human love. Maybe we should consider whether it might be judicious to revive this practice ourselves. — Pope Benedict XVI

Your time is a time of revival. It has its signs — Sunday Adelaja

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll

Because it is in giving of ourselves and our possessions that we best please God; by actions, not words. And all men do deserve a chance to earn God's grace. — Susanna Kearsley

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed. — Saul David

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back. — Wendell Berry

Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them. — Thomas Moore

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while. — Lusia Strus

If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes. — Olga Goa

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good. — Gilbert Arenas