Verdello Quotes & Sayings

You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange. — Rumi

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that. — Graham Parker

The end of his life, he was asked what stuck in his mind about his experiences in South America and on the Beagle. And he remembered climbing to the peak of the Andes in Peru or Chile - I can't remember - and then turning as he reached the peak and looking behind him. And he said, it was like the Hallelujah Chorus in the Messiah, playing with full orchestra, blaring in his head, because he was on top of the world. He was looking down almost like God upon this creation, which he had begun to sort out in his own mind as he'd been climbing, as it were. At the end of his life he was asked, "What's the most extraordinary experience you had?" And he remembered climbing to the peak of the Andes. And then he slept on it, and the next day he came back to the person and he said, "No, it was the rain forest. It was sitting there and feeling that there must be more to man than the breath in his body. — Krista Tippett

On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. — John O'Donohue

We must stop listening to voices from the past
and we must stop immediately.
Father Tim — Jan Karon

I hope you always find a reason to smile — Maya Angelou

Class clowns become actors. — Jasper Fforde

1. Clue to ending the "dream": only rarely we can actually put our own ending to one of our regular dreams. This can only be done in the last few seconds of sleep - as we are waking up. If we do a very drastic action in our dream, the dream will end the way we want, but we will then wake up. No doubt the Solipsist Dream willl work the same way. Reward: the final "waking up" - but into what? — Vincent Wallace

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody. — Elle Macpherson

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty. — Radhanath Swami

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

He was yelling at them all to follow. Claire didn't want to; she didn't trust them, any of them. But the boy took her hand, and said, "Trust me, Claire," and she felt something inside her that had been howling in fear ... go quiet. — Rachel Caine

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. — Clint Eastwood

Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it. — Gardiner Spring