Teamster Union Quotes & Sayings

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. — Plato

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible. — Samuel Johnson

Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way. — Gerald Lawson Sittser

See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man! and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all progress towards the sublime, the great and the enduring in man fell away and became a monkey's trick! — Hermann Hesse

I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have been there! Rubbish! The world is not a book, it proves nothing. The spaces one has crossed were dark corridors with closed doors. The faces of the women to whom one gave oneself up completely: did they speak for anyone but themselves? The cities of man are secret. One walks along their streets, one sees them shine under one's feet, but one is not there, one never enters them. The dusty fields inhabited by people who are hungry, who wait patiently, are paradises of luxury and nourishment; shining at a vast distance from intelligence, at a vast distance from reason. They are not to be subjugated. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

J. I. Packer has written, "The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives."17 — John F. MacArthur Jr.

I hate to say it to the kids out there but I just kind of blew off everything and made snowboarding the number one priority in my life — Jeremy Jones

Accept disgrace willingly ... Accept being unimportant ... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. — Laozi

In the morning it comes, heaven sent a hurricane
Not a trace of the sun but I don't even run from rain
Beating out of my chest, my heart is holding on to you
From the moment I knew
From the moment I knew — Sara Bareilles