Shimamoto Kamon Quotes & Sayings

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. — Rose Macaulay

One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede. — Oswald Chambers

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. — Roger Mudd

The first step of any journey must be taken with daring in your heart. Don't let fear clog your arteries. — T.S. Welti

She looked at the tree. It was a tree. A leaf, a leaf. Some things just are. They don't signal other meanings. They aren't like a god, casting its meaning over an entire year, or like a conversation, which is itself and also all the things that aren't said.
A tree was not a tree. A leaf, not a leaf. She understood what he didn't say. — Marie Rutkoski

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. — Abraham Lincoln

What are you doing to me?"

He chuckled against my skin as he kissed my shoulder. "Making damn sure I"m your biggest weakness. — Steph Nuss

You can want and hope, or you can make it happen. — Alonzo Mourning

NOVEL, n. A short story padded — Ambrose Bierce

Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to look. And they're better friends, truer friends. And we're better and truer to them. — Steven Pressfield

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function. — Oscar Hijuelos

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have. — Aly Raisman