Smriti Kalra Quotes & Sayings

Because we approach the gospel with preconceived notions of what it should say rather than what it does say, the Word no longer falls like rain on the parched ground of our souls. It no longer sweeps like a wild storm into the corners of our comfortable piety. It no longer vibrates like sharp lightning in the dark recesses of our nonhistoric orthodoxy. The gospel becomes, in the words of Gertrude Stein, ... a pattering of pious platitudes spoken by a Jewish carpenter in the distant past. — Brennan Manning

I was shown, not told, the workingman's belief in hard labor, — Jack Coughlin

If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry. — Brian Spellman

I said he had called them because it was from his mind that we drew them, seeking those who hated him, or at least had reason to. The giant you saw might have mastered the Commonwealth, had Severian not defeated him. The blond woman could not forgive him for bringing her back from death. — Gene Wolfe

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans. — Carroll Bryant

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college. — Kyle Kinane

Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences! — Douglas R. Hofstadter

If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike. — Shaquille O'Neal

Has he ever even said he loved you?"
"He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening — Connie Brockway

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. — David Bohm

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. — John Dewey