Winckler Adam Quotes & Sayings

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel. — James C. Humes

Prophecy will confirm and broaden the vision; it cannot create one if nothing is there. Vision is created through prayer, seeking God and sharing our hearts with people in the work. If these things are absent we need to be restoring people to God, not creating vision for empty hearts. — Graham Cooke

Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I. — Jonah Goldberg

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. — Barney Ross

Ice queens didn't break, after all. They melted. And Marco didn't have enough warmth for that. — Sarah Addison Allen

Scars a testament to your bravery, not a symbol of weakness or inferiority. — Dannika Dark

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself. — Dule Hill

We barely touched, I barely breathed, and time barely moved. Even my heartbeat, which thundered in my ears, seemed to slow down until every. Single. Beat had time to echo into silence before the next one took its place. — L.A. Witt

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan. — Emmylou Harris

The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside. — Dogen