Tailings Pile Quotes & Sayings

As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate. — Steve Erickson

This is the same advice they give people who've just come out of rehab. After a grueling period of work (or what passes for grueling work in our soft-handed world) you will crave some kind of reward. Don't let this cause you to rush into a big decision, like a new house or a marriage or partial ownership of a minor league baseball team, that you may later regret. The interesting thing about this piece of advice is that no one ever takes it. — Tina Fey

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy. — Richard Louv

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. — Nhat Hanh

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you. — Peter Kreeft

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously. — Mark Hart

I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' — Kristen Stewart

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.' — Luke Scott

Fifty minutes, huh?" he muttered.
"Too long?" she managed with a teasing smile, knowing she longer had the strength to turn him away. She wanted Dalton to make love to her again. Needed him to.
He arched a brow. "You questioning my stamina?"
Laughing softly, she reached for his shirt, pulling him to her. "Not on your life. I know better. I was just thinking that for a man who spent years perfecting the eight second ride, fifty minutes might be quite a stretch."
Threading his fingers through her hair, he looked down at her. "The stretching part is no longer in question. Hell, much longer and it's gonna take a crow bar to get me out of these jeans."
"Then what are you waiting for? — Lindsey Brookes

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work. — David Bosch

Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want the specific direction we have chosen to be the correct one, if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so. — Miya Yamanouchi

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease. — Peter Latham

Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love. — William Shakespeare

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done. — Charles Kelley