Shqiperine Quotes & Sayings

A "portal" is an opening (door, window, or opening). A heavenly portal or a glory portal is a heavenly opening through which God's goodness manifests. I have seen a portal in a vision and it was a circular opening where a column of light poured down into the earth. There were angels ascending and descending. — Patricia King

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development. — Howard W. Hunter

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions. — Francis Schaeffer

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character. — Kim Young-ha

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults. — Samuel Johnson

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts. — Patrick Ness

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know. — Henry Moore

You have not thought things through, he said. By his standards it was a brutal insult. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. — Donald Trump

After the news Kate had called him with last night, Grady found himself wishing there was more than coffee in his cup. There was a lull in the bickering, so Grady tried again. "For the last damn time, I am not gay," he said quietly. "Okay, so you say. I mean if that's your story, I'm fine with that," Stanley said, rolling his eyes. "Well that's just great." Grady stood and made eye contact with Kate. — Tracy Ewens

Whatever I 'align' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding. — Amy Engel

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. — Henry Cabot Lodge