Luwam Girmay Quotes

#1. Here's the point: idolatry is the tree from which our sins and struggles grow.

Kyle Idleman

#2. [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

George Will

#3. There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

Robert Graves

#4. Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does.

Charles Dickens

#5. It is better to have a little than nothing.

Publilius Syrus

#6. My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Sun Myung Moon

#7. All the things I'd done in my life, of all the versions of myself I'd lived out, there was one that had never changed: I was a writer.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

John Mayer

#9. At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Brad Gilbert

#10. Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

Andrew S. Gilbert

#11. If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

Atul Gawande