Starets Eastern Quotes & Sayings

I'm just trying to show the world what an imagination can do when it isn't strained by humanly limitations. — Lu Groblebe

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. — Sojourner Truth

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order. — Richard Rohr

Effectiveness is best measured by results over time. — Richard Tyler

Do you still perform autopsies on conversations you had lives ago? — Donte Collins

Oliver, calm down!" said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. "We're taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously. — J.K. Rowling

That all you got, George? — Muhammad Ali

I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God. — Goldie Hawn

It happened all the time. Maybe someone had a legitimate gripe that deserved airing. Maybe someone had a compliment that shouldn't go unspoken. No one said a thing. So long and stay in touch, that's usually all we said. Take care of yourself, good luck. We said nothing about affection, appreciation, admiration. — Joshua Ferris

I miss her. I miss her as I'd miss my sight if I were suddenly blind. I miss her as a tree must miss its wealth of leaves come midwinter. — Carrie Anne Noble

You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli. — Simon R. Green

In the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois - the prairie.
No one in the bus sees these relics. A worried farmer, his fertilizer bill projecting from his shirt pocket, looks blankly at the lupines, lespedezas or Baptisias that originally pumped nitrogen out of the prairie air and into his black loamy acres. He does not distinguish them from the parvenu quack-grass in which they grow. Were I to ask him the name of that white spike of pea-like flowers hugging the fence, he would shake his head. A weed, likely. — Aldo Leopold

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Come rain or come shine. — Johnny Mercer