Speth Obituary Quotes

#1. Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield. - Author: Terrence Real

#2. One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again. - Author: W.B.Yeats

#3. When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense. - Author: Andy Roddick

#4. People are always trying to understand.
There is only one way to do that.
It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. - Author: Idries Shah

#5. If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail. - Author: Kevin Brockmeier

#6. I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel. - Author: Sarah Bird

#7. After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar. - Author: Ysabeau S. Wilce

#8. O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay! - Author: Lady Gaga

#9. The teeth! - the teeth! - they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development. - Author: Edgar Allan Poe

#10. I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. - Author: Julian Baggini