Tagliano Baltimore Quotes & Sayings

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life ... These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God's plan for creation. — Pope Francis

She wanted to stay focused, one thing following sensibly upon another. There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past — Don DeLillo

Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one ... You are the one thing that keeps me Human. — Rick Yancey

I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different ways because I don't think there is a "way". — Frederick Lenz

The only one who's worthy of defeating me is me! Feeling — Sara Wolf

Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. — David Levithan

they all stem from the primal fault, which is idolatry, worshipping that which is not God as if it were. Second, they all show the telltale marks of the consequent fault, which is subhuman behavior, that is, the failure fully to reflect the image of God, that missing the mark as regards full, free, and genuine humanness for which the New Testament's regular word is hamartia, "sin." (Sin, we note, is not the breaking of arbitrary rules; rather, the rules are the thumbnail sketches of different types of dehumanizing behavior.) Third, it is perfectly possible, and it really does seem to happen in practice, that this idolatry and dehumanization become so endemic in the life and chosen behavior of an individual, and indeed of groups, that unless there is a specific turning away from such a way of life, those who persist are conniving at their own ultimate dehumanization. This — N. T. Wright

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character — Billy Wilder

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. — William Goldman

But after all highs comes a low. — Andie Mitchell

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine. — Gary Fisher

When people encounter a significant threat, a response called "threat rigidity" sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and to become "command and control" oriented - to focus everything on countering the threat in order to survive. — Clayton M Christensen

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach. — M. Scott Peck

Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me.
Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one. — Zadie Smith