St Anastasia Quotes & Sayings

Since ancient times, people have bowed down to idols in the appearance of humility and contrition. But their goal wasn't to be mastered by the idol. People worship to get things. We choose idols in part because we believe that they will give us what we want. The god of drugs brings fearlessness; the god of sex promises pleasure and intimacy; the god of wealth holds out power and influence. We can feel miserable about ourselves because we want to be great, at least at something, and we are not feeling very great. Like the prophets of Baal, we are arrogant enough to believe that we can manipulate the idol - whether by cutting or some other form of works righteousness - so it will relent and give us what we want. — Edward T. Welch

My whole life has been one big improvisation. — Clint Eastwood

When you hear the call to happiness, it is your responsibility to answer it. — Britt Reints

Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion. — Marcel Proust

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again. — David Burge

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. — Peter L. Berger

An aspersion upon my parts of speech! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

By now, I should have learned that luck, if she was a lady, was a mean-spirited bitch with a grudge against me. — Jaye Wells

Put his stamp on me?" Dee frowned. "It was a kiss, not a stamp. Jesus, do I have 'Ryder's Property' stamped on my forehead?" "Check your throat. Apparently he had his tongue down it, so it's probably there. — Angela Verdenius

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch. — Anton Chekhov

For there exists a great and boundless aeon, whose extent no generation of angels could see, in which is the great invisible Spirit, which no eye of an angel has ever seen, no thought of the heart has ever comprehended, and it was never called by any name. — Rodolphe Kasser

Shrapnel and a wave of sand struck the side like a bitch-slap from God Himself. — James Rollins

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations. — Allan Lokos