Uitgebreide In English Quotes & Sayings

All really good writers use fragments. — Priscilla Long

We are all caught up, entangled, in the lumbering day-to-day operations of a [social] machinery, working in many respects in the service of ends which we as Christians reject. This situation, the present [schizophrenic] situation of thousands of thinking Christians is the end product of a process that began the day Christians first decided to stop thinking Christianly in the interests of national harmony; the day when Christians first felt that the only way out of endless public discussion was to limit the operation of acute Christian awareness to the spheres of personal morality and spirituality.
From that point, the spheres of political, cultural, social, and commercial life became dominated by pragmatic and utilitarian thinking. — Harry Blamires

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago. — Chris Marker

O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart. — Louise Bogan

Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you'll get off the ground. — Zora Neale Hurston

Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body. — Poonam Dhandhania

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine ... a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos? — James Gleick

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition. — Malcolm X

It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right. — Tara Dupuis

Formal training is arduous, disruptive and expensive and so best reserved for getting across the most critical concepts and principles, and the skills that employees use every day. — Clive Shepherd

Trust is by far the hardest gift to give away. — Raine Miller

If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface. — Laszlo Nemes

I told him he was dreaming. He told me dreaming's the only way to get anywhere. — Cath Crowley

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you. — Eckhart Tolle