Steder Vent Quotes & Sayings

He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head under the water and drank deep, with his cheek against the cold stone of the riverbed, the water tumbling over his back, his calves. He drank and drank, lifted his head and shoulders above the water to gasp in the evening air, and then collapsed into the water again, to drink as greedily as before.
It was a kind of prayer, though, he realized as he emerged, freezing cold as the water evaporated from his skin in the breeze of the dark morning.
I am with you, he said to the Oversoul. I'll do whatever you ask, because I long for you to accomplish your purpose here. — Orson Scott Card

The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church's pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently. — Pope Francis

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works. — T. Boone Pickens

I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey. — Drew Chadwick

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters. — John Podhoretz

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. — Thomas Paine

If you can focus on doing things that make you happy, you'll have less of a need for stuff. — Leo Babauta