Vaige Quotes & Sayings

It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky! — Stasi Eldredge

God has joy for you right now. — Bonnie St. John

We're getting closer. I believe a 5-year-old with diabetes will live long enough to be cured. — Ron Santo

I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations. — Jennifer Lopez

The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come. — John Howard Yoder

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. — Victor Hugo

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform. — Verghese Kurien

Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side of the road. The sight could not have lasted very long; perhaps the car stopped for a moment, perhaps it slowed down long enough for me to see, large and looming shapes similar to those in my book, but shapes that I had never seen before. and yet, all of a sudden, I knew what they were; I heard them in my head, they metamorphosed from black lines and white spaces into a solid, sonourous, meangingful reality. I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing ourselves in a silently respectful dialogue. Since I could turn bare lines into a living reality, I was all-poweful. i could read. — Alberto Manguel

Obama was particularly offended, as he put it, that "the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans without judicial approval." Justifying — Jeremy Scahill

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. — Josh Peck

Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war
until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime — Robert Lowell

Graveyards were usually, in his team's experience, a bad idea. This one was full of greenish lights that danced between the graves, and there were a couple of swaying figures, one an emaciated husk with glowing eyes who had taken to ... yes, there he was again this morning, like every morning.
Quill tiredly raised his hand to return the wave. — Paul Cornell

No historical analogies are exactly precise. — Rick Perlstein