Ujung Jari Quotes & Sayings

The Biblical stories are sacred inspiration. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence streaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone. — Alison Bechdel

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting. — Jewel

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation. — Eric Hoffer

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same. — Jeffrey Archer

All this was part of the initiation rites common to all armies. So was learning to drink. Beer, almost exclusively, at the post PX, there being no nearby towns. Lots of beer. They sang soldiers' songs. Toward — Stephen E. Ambrose

If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope. — Auliq Ice

We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. — Michael Jordan

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral. — Penn Jillette