Wine Of Astonishment Quotes

#1. The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

Mary Rowlandson

#2. This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are.

Alice Walker

#3. Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.

Willie Geist

#6. Life is enhanced and ultimately perfected by inward development.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.

Elizabeth McCracken

#8. Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.

Michael J. Rosen

#9. He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.

Sidney Sheldon

#10. A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#11. When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.

Bill Nye

#12. Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

Moon Unit Zappa

#13. What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. I cried with pride as I looked into the face of a midwife from the next generation of baby catchers.

Peggy Vincent

#15. Apathy? Apathy? I don't care about apathy.

Ana Pattacini