Unfeathered Bird Quotes & Sayings

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then. — Stefan Zweig

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it. — Peter Marshall

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume. — Richard Wurmbrand

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. — Moby

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working. — Elton John

unless I should ever find a real friend, — Anne Frank

My friends esteem me; I often contribute to their happiness, and my heart seems as if it could not beat without them; and yet - - if I were to die, if I were to be summoned from the midst of this circle, would they feel - or how long would they feel the void which my loss would make in their existence? How long! Yes, such is the frailty of man, that even there, where he has the greatest consciousness of his own being, where he makes the strongest and most forcible impression, even in the memory, in the heart, of his beloved, there also he must perish - vanish - and that quickly. October — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness. — Frederick Lenz

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like. — Raymond Pettibon

If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the spice of every culture, a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold contradictory beliefs and be riven by incompatible values. — Yuval Noah Harari

But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth (Deut. 8:18a). — Myles Munroe

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system. — Mark Shields

What it comes to is that if we - who can scarcely be considered a white nation - persist in thinking of ourselves as one, we condemn ourselves, with the truly white nations, to sterility and decay. Whereas if we could accept ourselves as we are, we might bring new life to the Western achievements and transform them. The price of this transformation the unconditional freedom of the Negro. It is not too much to say that he - who has been so long rejected - must now be embraced and at no matter what psychic or social risk. He is the key figure in his country, and the American future is precisely as bright or as dark as his. — James Baldwin

It was the best night ever.
And they hadn't talked about any of it since. — Megan Abbott