Soseki Island Quotes

#1. Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.

Rachel Held Evans

#2. I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

Dabney Coleman

#3. To understand why mindsets are so powerful, you need to understand three concepts: schemas, priming, and spreading activation.

Nick Kolenda

#4. In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

David Hume

#5. Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Bobby Hull

#6. Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

Dana Milbank

#7. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

Annie Dillard

#8. Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.

Hermes Trismegistus

#9. Apple Tree Inn, the nightly gathering place of all Winslow residents, and in many ways the core of the town's happiness, always had a warm fire crackling on the hearth and was known for its good cider and company.

Clara Diane Thompson

#10. The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

John Muir

#11. Something wicked flashed in the depth of his eyes before his lip curved into a smile. "Not every day you get to meet Death in the flesh.

Michelle Gross

#12. I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Laura Dern

#13. He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.

Judith Krantz