Quotes of: Last-year Keyword

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Fireworks are flowers in the garden sky. My love is like New Year’s Eve, only less predictable and more daily.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Colombians might live in one of best places in the world to grow coffee beans, yet their cups of coffee come from dehydrated granules in tiny plastic packages. This is the definition of tragedy.

Misspelled Paradise: A Year in a Reinvented Colombia

The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

Take Me to the Castle

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Twenty Years at Hull House

But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Roger Malvin's Burial

Badger had been waiting with ever increasing certainty for that brown, government stamped envelope, to hit the floor with the impact of several atomic bombs; the shockwaves hitting him before the sound could penetrate his ears.

The Year of the Badgers

Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?" " ," I say. " ," she says, only instead of , it sounds like . "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.

The Year of the Book

Ihmisen usko jumaliin on kehittynyt evoluution myötä, joten meidän taipumuksessamme uskoon täytyy olla jotain etua evoluution kannalta. Ankaran materialistinen käsitys - että me olemme koe, jota eläinproteiini suorittaa itsellään - on useimp...

The Year of the Flood

I could have chosen to hide it all and retain your praise but it was still there rustling in my gut with or without your love. To hate me for my truth means you loved me for my lies.

THE YEAR OF THE FROG

Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Man’s desire is to know the mind of God.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life