Uyeda Thomas Quotes

#1. The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

Samuel Chadwick

#2. I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart

Ikkyu

#3. Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

Daniel Handler

#4. If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.

Al Gore

#5. I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

James Vincent McMorrow

#6. Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Edward Bellamy

#7. Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

Vladimir Lenin

#8. It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. He thought of Laurent's delicate, needling talk that froze into icy rebuff if Damen pushed at it, but if he didn't
if he matched himself to its subtle pulses and undercurrents
continued, sweetly deepening, until he could only wonder if he knew, if they both knew, what they were doing.

C.S. Pacat

#10. What's looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Lierre Keith

#11. All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

Max Weinberg

#12. In looking forward to what remains to be done, my readers will perhaps echo what my publishers say, "Please God to spare you!" I only ask to be less tormented by men and things than I have hitherto been since I began this terrific labor. I

Honore De Balzac

#13. Some people live, some people die.

McFly

#14. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

Queen Latifah

#15. Grandmothers are the best female superheroes and I don't know why they don't have their own special day and month of the year to celebrate.

Euginia Herlihy