Bernard Rapoport Quotes

#1. After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

James Boswell

#2. I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Tonya Harding

#3. The evangelism of Billy Graham is revered, so that if one dares to call the message of Graham the doctrine of Pelagius out of hell, as the Canons of Dordt do indeed call it, he is likely to be stoned as a blasphemer in the streets of Reformed Jerusalem. (3rd edn, p. 63)

David J. Engelsma

#4. His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.

Richard Bach

#5. After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

Doris Duke

#6. I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

David Bergen

#7. Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#8. If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the ordinary universe.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't.

Tom Perrotta

#11. I'll never find a better time to be alive than now.

Peter Hammill

#12. A man's perfection is his work.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

Jasper Johns