Zweigenhaft Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole. — S.D. Gordon

To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue. What — C.S. Lewis

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. — Charles Bukowski

When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade. — Paul McCartney

Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions. — Rafael Yglesias

Byron; and, realistically, quite a number of those infants will die without my care, and Josephine is hardly a creature with potential, hardly anybody's idea of a tabula rasa, a blank slate - hell, she's a slate that's had bad math scrawled on it and then been waxed so that nothing can ever be written on it again. I've treated sheep that had more of a right to live. — Tim Powers

To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. — Jeffrey Fry

We want to fight."
"And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely. — Laura Kreitzer

Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine. — David Finckel