"So many of my friends tell me theyâ€™re not religious. Iâ€™m like, Of course youâ€™re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, donâ€™t you?"

-- Richard Rodriguez

#Religious Quotes #Watches Quotes

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.”
“I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.”
“It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others, but the Indonesian, that together became the foundation of one nationale staat (nation-state).”
“In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.”
“America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.”
“What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 155, 1895.
“It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.”

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