Quotes About Apocalypses

#1. Erm.. dear, do I ride out for Apocalypses?' Mrs War took the lid off the saucepan and prodded viciously at something inside. 'No, dear,' she said firmly. 'You always come down with a cold.

Terry Pratchett

#2. How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all.

Saul Bellow

#3. As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses ...

Matt Ruff

#4. I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want.

Saul Bellow

#5. Of all the apocalypses in all the world - she had walked into his.

Mari Mancusi

#6. Big contrast: While the foreign media are obsessed with Apocalypses, the Japanese people are already talking of rebuilding.

William Gibson

#7. What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

Donella Meadows

#8. You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

Brad Paisley

#9. I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting.

Annette Bening

#10. If you don't understand and you love, that is not love; it is something else.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#12. He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#13. The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

N. T. Wright

#14. I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

Alex Pettyfer

#15. Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Al Leiter

#16. I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

#17. The best leaders make mistakes and then learn from them. The best leaders never make the same mistakes again. The only way you can learn is if you understand the mistakes that were made.

Joelle Charbonneau