Xenogears Wiseman Quotes & Sayings

Living loved, we relax our expectations, our efforts, our strivings, our rules, our spine, our breath, our plans, our job descriptions and checklists; we step off the treadmill of the world and the treadmill of religious performance. We are not the authors of our redemption. — Sarah Bessey

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do. — Jeff Bridges

Way I can explain it to you is by saying that, for a second or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the — Joseph Conrad

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense. — Ursula Vernon

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. — Dick Cheney

Those were people launched into an exodus of biblical proportions, pushed only by the will to survive; beings weighed down with an enormous list of frustrations and tangible losses with gazes from which even dignity had disappeared. — Leonardo Padura

I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,' Paul said, 'maybe you could start a trend. You'd be original.' 'Oh, my God,' she said. 'It's high school, Dad. People get beat up for being original. — Sherman Alexie

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. — Rick Bragg

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community. — Adam Schiff

One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.' — Doug Pagitt

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? — William Cowper

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age. — Kay Panabaker

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between
Is my journey's end coming? — Herman Melville

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11. — Amity Gaige

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company. — Sophia Amoruso