Knicklebine Quotes

#1. No nation has friends only interests.

Charles De Gaulle

#2. I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#3. This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

Dave Edmunds

#4. It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere.
Red. Red. Red.
Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches.
Red means run.

Lauren Oliver

#5. You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.

Urijah Faber

#6. Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.

Daniel Abraham

#7. There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#8. Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.

Sari Botton

#9. When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

Pat Robertson

#10. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.

John Piper

#11. Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.

Georgette Heyer

#12. I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Contemplation is the awareness and realization, even in some sense experience, of what each Christian obscurely believes: "It is now no longer I that live but Christ lives in me." Hence

Thomas Merton