Thomist Theology Quotes & Sayings

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. — Don DeLillo

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit? — Quentin Crisp

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. — Jill Scott

Kingsley turned his attention back to her.
"Why do you have your clothes on?"
"Was I supposed to take them off?"
"I've never heard a stupider question in my life. — Tiffany Reisz

Working on the Dark Side of the Moon" is meant to lift the curtain on secret places where smart, dedicated people work to protect the US and our allies from those who would do us harm. The NSA is easy to vilify because it works in secret, and it is powerful enough to bear watching. But it also deserves to be appreciated. This book shows the human face of two parts of the US Intelligence Community. — Thomas Reed Willemain

No child's face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow ... Bella's Lullaby — Stephenie Meyer

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement. — Sally Field

Ruthie started to cry at Julia's use of the word "hate," though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time now it had been easier just to hate her sister. Easier to try to define the relationship with that simple emotion than to live with the conflicting set of feelings Julia brought forth. — Susan Rebecca White

48. Imagine, for example, someone who fucks like a whore. Someone who seems good at it, professional. Someone you can still see fucking you, in the mirror, always in the mirror, crazy fucking about three feet away, in an apartment lit by blue light, never lit by daylight, this person is always fucking you from behind in blue light and you both always seem good at it, dedicated and lost unto it, as if there is no other activity on God's given earth your bodies know how to do except fuck and be fucked like this, in this dim blue light, in this mirror. What do you call someone who fucks this way? — Maggie Nelson

I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated. — Alice Waters

Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it."
"Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us. — Tamora Pierce

Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one. — Debasish Mridha

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle, — George Jung