Steinke Quotes & Sayings

All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system. — Peter L. Steinke

Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions. — Darcey Steinke

Descriptions and analyses of what exists are important but certainly not sufficient. We also need to understand what could be. — Michael Neocosmos

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God. — Sun Myung Moon

Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution. — Yehuda Berg

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been? — Darcey Steinke

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want. — Darcey Steinke

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are. — Darcey Steinke

I forced myself out of a love
that I knew would only end fatally.
I forced myself into the dark,
until I could no longer remember
how to feel with my eyes.
I forced my mind to believe
that someone would hold you
better than I ever could.
But the worst part was selling my soul
for a price I know I'll never repay,
and forcing myself into love
with someone who wasn't you — Jl

No decent art ever came out of self-pity. — Rene Steinke

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that. — Darcey Steinke

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them. — Darcey Steinke

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing. — Darcey Steinke

What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers? — Darcey Steinke

The most sad and dangerous people are the ones who are desperate to be like you. The people dress like you, try to talk like you. That's called a whitchcraft act. — Euginia Herlihy

For awhile, staring at my paper bag of clothes, my freaked-out eyes in the mirror behind the bar, I convinced myself I would go back to Bell. He was the only man that ever made me feel in life instead of just a spectator, and if he did that by fear and pain, it was still better then when I looked numbly at some man on the couch thinking, I will leave you soon. — Darcey Steinke

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything. — Darcey Steinke

I know the girl is right because the snake is in me, knotted around my intestines, hanging off my ribs, snuggled like a lover around my black heart. "I love you," I said, addressing the snake, Madison, Bell, Kevin, Pig, my mother, my past lives and the new lover speeding toward me at this very moment. I wondered if it mattered whether you loved one person or another. Weren't lovers interchangeable when you thought back about them? Maybe that was true in the future too. What I really loved was the note. I always loved odd things: the blue curacao bottle, the wet asphalt, my own insipid fear. — Darcey Steinke

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow. — Melvyn Douglas

The purpose of the local church is not primarily to be one's church home or extended family, though it can be at times. And it is not to survive by obtaining more people for its support base. Its purpose is to invite people to be part of the true mission of the church. Reception into the church is only a threshold to involvement in its mission. The task of the church is not to accumulate attendees. The church is a school for developing agents of the new creation from among those who are the beneficiaries of God's grace. — Peter L. Steinke

I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person. — Darcey Steinke

Only when you have a changeless sense of who you are,can real change take place. — Ilchi Lee

Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky. — Darcey Steinke

When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you. — Darcey Steinke

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know. — Darcey Steinke

What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away. — Rene Steinke

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself. — Darcey Steinke

The air scored his throat on each breath like crushed glass. — Nora Roberts

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded. — Gail Collins

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence. — Plutarch

Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view. — Peter L. Steinke

We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their own coffins, deep under several feet of French soil. — Amy Plum

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women. — Mahatma Gandhi

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too. — Darcey Steinke

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible. — Darcey Steinke

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine - with tremendous humor and insight - the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances. — Emma McLaughlin

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough. — Darcey Steinke

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today. — John Barrymore

N. T. Wright explains, "What [Jesus] was promising for that future, and doing in that present, was not saving souls for a disembodied eternity, but rescuing people from the corruption and decay of the way the world presently is so they could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God's ultimate purpose - and so they could thus become colleagues and partners in that larger project."1 A promise of a new creation and an invitation to a new vocation stretches beyond "me and Jesus" to God's worldwide purposes. The mission of the church must be informed and shaped by how the New Testament presents the future hope. — Peter L. Steinke

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy. — Darcey Steinke