Dejection An Ode Important Quotes

#1. A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

Zhuangzi

#2. Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. She was, through no real faults of her own, perfect.

William Goldman

#4. If you have no regrets from the life you have lived,
your biggest regret should be the life you haven't lived.

Robert Sauber

#5. You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she gives, every tree, every stalk of grain, costs her. Only if you repay your debts will she continue to provide.

Morgan Llywelyn

#6. To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection ... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Kobe Bryant

#8. Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

Jacob Needleman

#9. A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.

Russell D. Moore

#10. When robbed, the rich cry out for protection and prosecution. When stealing, they expect the judiciary to look the other way.

Steven Erikson

#11. Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.

Conan O'Brien

#12. In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

Antony Beevor

#13. I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.

Helene Cardona

#14. She had a hand on his belt, ready to show him exactly what she had in mind for the night, when he lowered to his knees between her legs, his hands spanning her ribs. Nervousness had vanished from his expression, replaced by eyes that gimmered with tenderness and perhaps even a hint of joy.

Melissa Cutler

#15. The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

Alfred North Whitehead