Tomaskyrkan Quotes & Sayings

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view. — Sue Grafton

Do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it. — Larry Winget

17. He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. — Anonymous

It was not just the drink, though, that was making me happy, but the tenderness of things, the simple goodness of the world. This sunset, for instance, how lavishly it was laid on, the clouds, the light on the sea, that heartbreaking, blue-green distance, laid on, all of it, as if to console some lost suffering waybarer. I have never really got used to being on this earth. Somethings I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was meant to contain us? — John Banville

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. — George Eliot

Something about theatre perhaps scared me. — James Nesbitt

What's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits-but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying [to] your citizens you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this. — Jonathan Gruber

Love isn't something you can put a timeline on, you know that right?As it would seem, fate had other plans for us. Wouldn't you agree? — Christy Pastore

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications. — Buzz Aldrin

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. — Cathy Freeman

Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. — Burt Rutan

In times of trouble, wait for the Lord to defend you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter. — Czeslaw Milosz