Taisce Folder Quotes & Sayings

THE PREMIER COMMANDMENT. [Deut. 6:4, 5] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.4 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. — Anonymous

The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation. — John Shelby Spong

It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook. — Jake Schreier

There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this transition between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago: signs that began as pictures came to represent meaningful units of sound. Because the basic unit was the word, thousands of distinct symbols were required. This is efficient in one way, inefficient in another. Chinese unifies an array of distinct spoken languages: people who cannot speak to one another can write to one another. It employs at least fifty thousand symbols, about six thousand commonly used and known to most literate Chinese. In swift diagrammatic strokes they encode multidimensional semantic relationships. One device is simple repetition: tree + tree + tree = forest; more abstractly, sun + moon = brightness and east + east = everywhere. The process of compounding creates surprises: grain + knife = profit; hand + eye = look. — James Gleick

My room is cheerfully located between the sixth-floor elevators. The springs of my bed wheeze. The elevator dings. The ice machine right outside my door rumbles forth its icy bounty, a steady tattoo that beats "Stay up! Stay up!" I am in a canvas that Edward Hopper never felt bummed out enough to paint. — David Rakoff

First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive. — Niccolo Tucci

I know for a fact you get all hot and bothered for cocky Texans with big trucks."
"Is that what I like to be big?"
"You know it, darlin'." He dipped his head lower wanting - needing - to touch her.
"You never know. I might just surprise you. — Avery Flynn

the government' - that's too sweeping a term. 'The government' is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not 'the government' - but what individuals? — Robert A. Heinlein

In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay. — Joe Hill

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. — Audrey Hepburn

I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others. — Marianne Williamson