Refocuses Quotes

#1. But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.

Shane Claiborne

#2. I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

David Cameron

#4. Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.

Allen Lacy

#5. What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs.

Ted Leonsis

#6. The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

Paul Kagame

#7. I lay in his arms and I understood. I am two women and I love two men. Elise will always love Kit and Alice loves Daniel. This was not the life or the love I had expected but it was love all the same.

Natasha Solomons

#8. Labor must work harder to attract and retain members. The party should be cheaper to join with discounted rates available for union members as well as for students, pensioners, and people out of work.

Bill Shorten

#9. Every man ought to plant a tree.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Celine Dion

#11. What could be more encouraging than realizing that Jesus calls the unqualified?

Justin Buzzard

#12. Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#13. I do not consider myself beautiful.

Beatrice Dalle

#14. Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Homo sentimentalis [ ... ] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.

Milan Kundera