Somersetsilverpalms Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it. — John C. Dvorak

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. — Rose Macaulay

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. — Christopher Hitchens

Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn. — Baruch Halpern

We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to God's personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God and to live out the consequences of the relationship. The focus of this type of spiritual direction is on experiences, not on ideas, and specifically religious experiences, i.e., any experience of the mysterious Other whom we call God. Moreover, this experience is viewed, not as an isolated event, but as an ongoing expression of the ongoing personal relationship God has established with each one of us. — Jeannette A. Bakke

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more. — Paul Bettany

Frustration comes from fighting your own momentum. — Walter Kirn

His killing that day would not have been evil if the dead soldiers hadn't been loved by mothers, sisters, friends, wives. Mellas understood that in destroying the fabric that linked those people, he had participated in evil, but this evil had hurt him as well. He also understood that his participation in evil, was a result of being human. — Karl Marlantes

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. — Thomas Otway