Undercurrents Playlist Quotes & Sayings

We priests are sneered at and always shall be - the accusation is such an easy one - as deeply envious, hypocritical haters of virility. Yet whosoever has experienced sin must know that lust, with its parasitic growth, is for ever threatening to stifle virility as well as intelligence. Impotent to create, it can only contaminate in the germ the frail promise of humanity; it is probably at the very source, the primal cause of all human blemishes; and when amid the windings of this huge jungle whose paths are unknown, we encounter Lust, just as she is, as she emerged forth from the hands of the Master of Prodigies, the cry from our hearts is not only terror but imprecation: 'You, you alone have set death loose upon the world! — Georges Bernanos

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth. — Peter Roskam

The urge to impose a single classification on SF ignores the generic hybridity of many novels: incorporation of the Gothic in The Island of Dr Moreau, of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Forbidden Planet, and so on. The rise of film coincides with the emergence of science fiction. The relation between SF fiction and film has included an ongoing fascination with spectacle and extraordinary special effects like those pioneered in Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). — David Seed

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. — Van Morrison

In twenty years, they'd have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis lessons and ugly cars and liaisons with hot young interns. Hurricanes of entitlement, all swirl and noise and destruction, nothing at their centers. — Lauren Groff

Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat? — Jim Carrey

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them. — Karen Marie Moning

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration. — Richard Reti

The very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts
for him traditional
by which he finds it profitable to represent to himself what is happening when he receives the bread and wine. I could wish that no definitions had ever been felt to be necessary; and, still more, that none had been allowed to make divisions between churches. — C.S. Lewis

Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love. — Thich Nhat Hanh

His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out.
"Posture's wrong," Kat said.
"He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world.
"I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them. — Ally Carter

The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, it's up to them to be and do their best in life. — Thomas J. Powell

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. — Charles Duhigg

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire. — Wayne Dyer

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible. — Jackie Gleason