Via Crucis Quotes & Sayings

'Crash' was incredibly personal to me. So was 'In the Valley of Elah.' There were things in 'The Next Three Days' that were questions I was asking myself but couldn't answer, like how far would you go for love? Can you believe in somebody who can't even believe in themselves? But this is highly personal. — Paul Haggis

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize. — Binyavanga Wainaina

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. — Hakeem Olajuwon

Officer Dan..." I start.

"Squirt..." He grins while trying to swallow.

"I'm trying to be nice," I say, eyes narrowed. "Do you know how hard that is right now? — Apryl Baker

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card. — Jacqueline McKenzie

God is never late, but rarely early. — Mother Teresa

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time. — Robin Zander

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking. — Ewan MacColl

I was forced to agree. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Doubt is unsettling to the ego, and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by proffering certainties will never grow. In seeking certainty they are courting the death of the soul, whose nature is forever churning possibility, forever seeking the larger, forever riding the melting edge of certainty's glacier. — James Hollis

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. — Martin Luther

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), whose Egyptian museum in San Jose took up an entire city block. It stressed the virtues of reason and science while also suggesting that ancient Egyptian wisdom would allow its followers to re-lease the hidden powers inherent in man. — George Pendle

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell. — Pete Townshend

From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can't miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil's demons put together. — Wes Moore

What more she said, or what de Crucis answered, he could never afterward recall. He had a confused sense of having cried out a last unavailing protest, faintly, inarticulately, like a man struggling to make himself heard in a dream; then the room grew dark about him, and in its stead he saw the old chapel at Donnaz, with its dimly-gleaming shrine, and heard the voice of the chaplain, harsh and yet strangely shaken: - "My chief prayer for you is that, should you be raised to this eminence, it may be at a moment when such advancement seems to thrust you in the dust." Odo lifted his head and saw de Crucis standing alone before him. "I am ready," he said. — Edith Wharton

I was more of a genius in dreams than in life. That is my tragedy. — Fernando Pessoa