Possessing The Gates Quotes

#1. It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

Thomas Szasz

#2. The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.

Pope John Paul II

#3. I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Elaine Stritch

#4. (Reply on what constitutes scientific proofThe question is much too difficult for me.

Albert Einstein

#5. Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.'

Elizabeth Berkley

#7. In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

Stephen Root

#8. Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#10. The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Sophie Swetchine

#11. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

Paul Kane

#12. Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.

Nizar Qabbani