Stygian Recurve Quotes & Sayings

Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful. — Oscar A. Romero

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain. — Jeff Melvoin

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient. — Clive Owen

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. — Kin Hubbard

Hildegarde stood, scratched her nose, an act for which she must later say a penance. — Louise Erdrich

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. — Maurice Gibb

But he came, when I was at my darkest. I prayed him down from the sky, and he came in a flash of blue fire that lit up the heavens. I know he came by his own choice, but he came because I called him. He came when I could no longer take the weight of the world on my own. He came when I needed him the most. He came and saved me from myself, saved me from the waters that rose up to my chest and over my head. — T.J. Klune

I don't get treadmills. You get all sweaty and go nowhere. Now, sex? You get all sweaty and go everywhere. — Nora Roberts

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor

I can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you wish to get up in the morn-ing.'
'That's nice,' said the little girl; 'only I never wish to get up in the morning. — L. Frank Baum

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status. — Deborah Tall

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living. — Jessica Alba

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by. — Peter Straub

There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett