The Jungle Book Mowgli's Story Quotes & Sayings

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer. — N. T. Wright

He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. — Max Stirner

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years. — Lance Armstrong

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. — Ugo Betti

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems. — Derrick Jensen

She has a point," Cousins said. He never would have stood back here making sandwiches, though he felt he could use a sandwich, that he wanted one, and so he poured himself another drink. — Ann Patchett

One of the reasons I don't have a TV is, if I have a TV, then I don't do other things. At least for me, I'd rather just download the programs I want to watch and watch them, or I can buy them on DVD. — Tim Gane

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident. — Pierce Brosnan

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. — Stephen Covey

words, rejecting the doctrine of sin — Soren Kierkegaard

Like was not about getting what you wanted, it was about living with what you needed — R.K. Lilley

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time. — Criss Jami

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities. — John Zorn

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. — Yves Klein

When you are obedient to God, He fills you with His Spirit and empowers you to do all He asks of you. — Jim George