Wawanesa Renters Insurance Quotes & Sayings

O Lord Jesus Christ, I long to live in your presence, to see your human form and to watch you walking on earth. I do not want to see you through the darkened glass of tradition, nor through the eyes of today's values and prejudices. I want to see you as you were, as you are, and as you always will be. I want to see you as an offence to human pride, as a man of humility, walking amongst the lowliest of men, and yet as the saviour and redeemer of the human race.2 — Michael Counsell

We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference. — Chang-rae Lee

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up. — Paul Castellano

Like other corrupt people, he would never realize that his punishment was in missing out on what he didn't know he could have. — Guy Mankowski

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance. — Stanley Hauerwas

I said that the greatest female writers, with almost no exceptions, have been childless. A fact. And I have said that women generally, by virtue of their desire to mother, are incapable of the necessarily single-minded focus anyone must bring to the creation of literature, true literature. I don't retract a word. That is a fact. — Robert Galbraith

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies. — Jake Barton

Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge. — Eraldo Banovac

But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world. — J. Limbu