Meyendorff Orthodoxy Quotes

#1. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Gary Hopkins

#2. Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Jeff Koons

#3. A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Whoever writes about his childhood must beware of exaggeration and self-pity. I do not want to claim that I was a martyr or that Crossgates was a sort of Dotheboys Hall. But I should be falsifying my own memories if I did not record that they are largely memories of disgust.

George Orwell

#5. I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Bill Murray

#6. You make my frown turn upside down and now my worries are gone.

Owl City

#7. Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

Marshall Brickman

#8. Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!

Neil Pasricha

#9. Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

Saint Augustine

#10. Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Wislawa Szymborska

#11. I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.

Ivan Glasenberg

#12. Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

Joseph Campbell