Liminality Examples Quotes

#1. One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.

Gene Wolfe

#2. We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Edward Hoagland

#3. Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

Bob Edwards

#4. An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#5. I'm fine. If he believes it, he's a moron.

Tracy Bilen

#6. Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

Jack Kroll

#7. Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Marie Corelli

#8. Cauchy was not interested in the needs of engineers. Cauchy was interested in the truth.

Jordan Ellenberg

#9. I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an 'okay'?

Abbi Glines

#10. We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.

Richard Rohr