96 quotes found
Rapper and actor · American · 1958
American rapper and actor (born 1958)
“Saying that 'I am a grateful alcoholic' will then reflect the truth about who we have become in our person, having understood deeply and intimately that God in his grace can turn any evil, any pain...”
“Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. p. 56”
“Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.”
“A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.”
“Love is love, wherever you may find iteven when it's covered in feathers.”
“Many have doubts”
“I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and sweep me into some wideness, som...”
“She'd been mad for him as a girl, but she'd chalked that up to youthful infatuation. She'd tracked the events of his life religiously for a decade, but she'd told herself that was idle curiosity. A...”
“Mrs. Casey, do you love Christmas? Well you know, she answered reflectively, Christmas can be a sad time for people too. It's a remembering time for us older ones. We remember the people who are go...”
“I always remember your own grandmother, she continued, nodding her head, old Mrs. Taylor. She died on a Christmas Night.Oh, I said shivering. I wouldn't like to die on a Christmas Night. A good nig...”
“They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.”
“. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.”
“Letting go isnt about forgetting”
“I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.”
“Do not grumble that bees sting”
“I am not man so much as syndrome”
“We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable. p. 134”
“Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.”
“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.”
“When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'”