Corrie Ten Boom Embroidery Quotes

#1. Wasn't he approaching Ricardo Montalban? Probably because there were more interesting things in heaven than Ricardo Montalban.

B.J. Novak

#2. I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

Debra Winger

#3. Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#5. Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Richard P. Feynman

#6. Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

Corrie Ten Boom

#7. I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Julian Baggini

#8. A sparrow's heart beats four hundred and sixty times a minute. A man's, just seventy-eight. But sometimes, at night, my heart approached sparrow speed. This happened when the darkness crept into my bed and wrapped itself around my feet.

Jenny Offill

#9. Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Mark Twain

#10. I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

Terry Teachout