Wilinski Montreal Quotes & Sayings

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems ... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on. — Seamus Heaney

On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away, so to speak, before it was received, like water on thirsty soil; it was well that money came to him, for he never kept any, and besides he robbed himself. — Victor Hugo

God always protects what He considers to be a blessing for a person. — Sunday Adelaja

When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you've come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing? — Teresa Hirst

He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece. — Victor Hugo

When we are kind and passionate to others, we become compassionate, this is one of the bases for uni-consciousness. — Debasish Mridha

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. — Chuck Eddy

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence? — Mahatma Gandhi

This book is written in blood.
Is it written entirely in blood?
No, some of it is written in tears.
Are the blood and tears all mine?
Yes, they have been in the past, but the future is a different matter.
As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her mothers (i.e. her forebears) grimly but quietly while the apples from the shaken apple tree above her dropped bang thud on her head:
OH, SOMEBODY ASIDES ME IS GONNA RUE THIS HERE PARTICULAR DAY. — Joanna Russ

The role of an activist is not to lead the masses with a flag draped around his or her shoulders. Activists meet a few people at a time in a coffee shop to explain in hushed tones why they should believe when no one else does. An activist's moment is not the moment of change; it is the period when change seems impossible. — Ahmed Salah

Ask, and it shall be bgiven you; cseek, and ye shall find; dknock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that aseeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask abread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? — Anonymous