Unexpectdely Quotes & Sayings

Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose. — Rick Warren

As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is. — Sally Helgesen

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. — Johannes Tauler

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry] — Ronnie O'Sullivan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won. — Paul Celan

Caleb's hands pulled my face up and he still looked like that boy that would move mountains and break jaws for me. — Shelly Crane

She has no idea how careless I've already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does. — Jessi Kirby

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money. — Joseph P. Kennedy

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that. — Sarah Hyland

I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who stood on each other's shoulders to peek over the temple at you and call out "Hello, Mrs. Lady!" as you walked by. There were novices who snuck cigarettes at night outside the temple walls, the embers of their smokes glowing as orange as their robes. I saw a buff teenage monk doing push-ups, and I spotted another one with an unexpectdely gangsterish tattoo of a knife emblazoned on one golden shoulder. One night I'd eavesdropped while a handful of monks sang Bob Marley songs to each other underneath a tree in a temple garden, long after they should have been asleep. I'd even seen a knot of barely adolescent novices kickboxing each other - a display of good-natured competition, that like boys' games all over the world, carried the threat of turning truly violent at a moment's notice. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself. — Bernard DeVoto

Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then would suddenly overtake and overwhelm her. — Anna Quindlen

[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it. — Gabrielle Hamilton