Sherfield Pit Quotes & Sayings

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city. — Louis MacNeice

You may have it," he said. His voice was very low, but he met my eyes straight on. "All of it. Anything that was ever done to me. If ye wish it, if it helps ye, I will live it through again. — Diana Gabaldon

The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom. — Jennifer Senior

I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it. — Gillian Anderson

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A KING IN HALF-SLEEP

I wake from sleep within you. I turn and hold you in my arms, as a king in half-sleep thinks himself alone, then feels his bride next to him in bed, smells her hair, and remembers he has a companion.

Slowly waking more, he begins to talk. So I wake inside you, the pleasure, the soft-saying, the elegance of the hours we walk in wonder. I draw closer. When my servants ask of me, tell them I am near (2:186).

Then I remember Moses fainting in the presence, Jesus' face, the mysteries that the saints unfold, Muhammad's sure stance, lovers mixing together in their songs, and I know that I have been given these feet to walk the amazement you gave them. — Bahauddin

For this - the ideal, as it is set - should be not as to what others should do to make the ideal situation for self, but as to how self may apply itself in its ideal to bring the ideal relationships with others. — Edgar Cayce

We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness. — Arthur Hailey

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that. — Brian Wilson

This has always bothered me. If "Change" is the only constant how can we have absolutes? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun. — John Hughes

I'm an admirer of everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, but I don't think he would have stood for this — Andy Rooney

This in the context of turning the mind away from samsara, but this doesn't mean against samsara, it is for samsara. Because, what would be the best thing for all sentient beings in samsara? The best thing would be to have a Buddha to guide one, and each one of us wishes to be that Buddha. In — Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

I would fain coin wisdom, - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men - as base money - the words by which they cheat and are cheated! — Joseph Joubert

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception. — Leonard Cohen