Sonstein Allen Quotes & Sayings

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness. — Shams Tabrizi

The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. After all, Pilate permitted the killing of Jesus in order to secure both peace and justice (Roman style) in Judea. — Stanley Hauerwas

If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created.- Prince Ikan — Ray Anyasi

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings. — E. J. Hughes

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique. — Bartlett Sher

You are a fucking delight, princess. It's like you know the dirty jokes in my head I'm too scared to make in front of you. — Melanie Harlow

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. — Mark Haddon

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths." — Hester Lynch Piozzi

A hungry sound came across the breeze
So I gave the walls a talking. — Shane MacGowan

No man can tell what he will feel like tomorrow morning; you do not control that. Our business is to do something about these changing moods and not to allow ourselves to become victims of them. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass. — Keith Murray

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home. — Dakota Johnson

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. — Carolyn Wells