Windiest Cities Quotes & Sayings

Why are you troubled? Trust in God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral. — Pope Francis

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do. — Colin Hay

Is 'vagina' suitable for use
in a sonnet? I don't suppose so.
A famous poet told me, 'Vagina's ugly.'
Meaning, of course, the sound of it. In poems.
Meanwhile he inserts his penis frequently
into his verse, calling it seriously, 'My
Penis'. It is short, I know, and dignified.
I mean of course the sound of it. In poems. — Joan Larkin

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. — Thomas Hobbes

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. — Kathe Kollwitz

Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and no natural ability? As far as he could tell there had been no secret inks, no codes, and little effort to keep his movements secret. Maybe the world was better off without such fools; fledglings who fell out of the sky only to die on the ground. — Dory Codington

Either the gods have no power or they have power. If, then, they have no power, why do you pray to them? But if they have power, why do you not pray for them to give you the faculty of not fearing any of the things that you fear, or of not desiring any of the things that you desire, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that they should grant this or refuse that? For certainly if they can cooperate with men, they can cooperate for these purposes. But perhaps you will say, the gods have placed this in your power. Well, then, is it not better to use what is in your power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in your power? And who has told you that the gods do not aid us even in the things that are in our power? — Marcus Aurelius

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life. — Bill Vaughan

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it. — Megan McKenna

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say. — Nalini Singh

My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle. — Dean Koontz