Vernation Quotes

#1. True prayer is pleading with God for that which He wants to do anyway.

Todd Stocker

#2. You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security ... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed ...

Chogyam Trungpa

#3. The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain.

David Foster Wallace

#4. This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

Nigel Lythgoe

#5. What kind of work do you do," I asked.
"Promise you won't laugh?"
"Promise."
"I'm a proctologist."
I couldn't help it. I laughed a little. "An ass doctor?

Buffy Andrews

#6. I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

Herbie Hancock

#7. Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Tom Robbins

#9. In suffering, we find the true measure of our strength.

Brent Weeks

#10. Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

Raphael Saadiq

#11. I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get.

Fan Bingbing

#12. I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

Michael Cera

#13. if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's

Rod Dreher