Life Quotes

She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone’s strings all the time, we’d be puppets.

Janice Cantore

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Philip Yancey

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

John Donne

Bezrazložan i besciljan nemir u sadašnjosti, a u budućnosti tek neprekidne žrtve kojima neće ništa postići - eto što ga čeka na ovome svijetu. I što vrijedi što će mu za osam godina biti tek trideset dvije godine i što će mu iznova zapo...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

David Harvey

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Manuel Castells

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.

Cassandra Clare

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Wilhelm Reich

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine...

Shelby Foote

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for t...

John Lanchester

When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.

Renee Swope

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

Ron Suskind

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Ron Suskind

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Ron Suskind

A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a feeling that this life cannot possibly be all, and that it is not possible for consciousness to end with the end of life.

John Lanchester

AVA God you are a delight you have delivered what I like heaven delivers a gift with lips heaven delivers a gift with hips God you delivered what I like oh God you are in the spotlight

R.M. Romarney

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Ilchi Lee

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began again, "but I can't resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one little notion I want to express, simply that I may not forget it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

Guillaume Apollinaire