Visvalingam Whyatt Quotes & Sayings

The new Episcopalian and Catholic liturgies include a segment called "passing the peace." Many things can go wrong here. I know of one congregation in New York which fired its priest because he insisted on their passing the peace- which involves nothing more than shaking hands with your neighbors in the pew. The men and women of this small congregation had limits to their endurance; passing the peace was beyond their limits. They could not endure shaking hands with people to whom they bore lifelong grudges. They fired the priest and found a new one sympathetic to their needs" Anne Dillard- Teaching a Stone to Talk- An Expedition to the Pole — Anne Dillard

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. — Jean De La Bruyere

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain

No cat's going to listen to her lies when — Erin Hunter

The music is in minors. — Gwendolyn Brooks

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. — Derrick Jensen

We are made for this moment, and we will seize it-so long as we seize it together. — Barack Obama

Stop trying to be cute. You're too mean to be cute. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Her feeling was rather that, given the nature of the human couple, the love of man and woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog, that oddity of human history probably unplanned by the Creator. — Anonymous

She had this terrible, irrational fear that if she let go of him she would never touch him again and the thought of that was paralyzing. — Kristin Hannah

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. — Paul Downs Colaizzo