817 quotes found
“We cannot let our hurts, fears, and prejudices get in the way of God’s calling for our lives.”
“...Morning takes youagain to the placeof no return...I don’t have the timeto tell you,how much I wantyou to be here…”
“Look for mein sleepless nights,among the stars,I’ll be your guiding star...Look for mein the moments of happiness,on a green field,I’ll be your joy....”
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that ...”
“A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all...”
“…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements...”
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the ...”
“In the aftermath, we are because they were.”
“Unreality cooled reality’s burn.”
“…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a no...”
“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.”
“…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.”
“Having been fucked up by my family and community, I’ll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and “neurosis” begins. But as a gay person I know I’m a vital element in our civiliza...”
“Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel ...”
“The whole world, as we’re coming to understand, is quivering in its place.”
“You’ve always been a stormYour lightning mouthElectrifies my heart”
“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand”
“You're One Moment From 'The Moment'. Live it. -”
“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”
“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate”
