Patmos's Quotes

#1. Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.

Elaine Pagels

#2. Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

Alice Hoffman

#3. None of the dead come back. But some stay.

John Of Patmos

#4. Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

Frances Moore Lappe

#5. But it was Seth's decision, and it cannot be undone. And when you go topside in six months, you should find him and thank him.
I was actually going to hug and squeeze and love the dude. Then smack him. And then hug and squeeze and love him again.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. I know he has something in mind because this man doesn't fly by the seat of his pants. He's done this enough to be calculating, his every move premeditated.

Georgia Cates

#7. The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

Dalai Lama

#8. To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.

Paul Monette

#9. Do you want to walk for a bit? It's probably ridiculously dangerous, but YOLO and what not.

Claire Zorn

#10. I want all of my lasts to be with you

Swapna Rajput

#11. There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

Elaine Pagels

#12. Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love - that was my summer of 1979.

Ella Leya

#13. In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Rumi

#14. I'm not interested in celebrities, with their free dresses. I'm interested in clothes.

Bill Cunningham

#15. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Stefan Zweig