"The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven."

-- Phyllis McGinley

#Mistake Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“This is my body. It is no one's but mine.”
“I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.”
“A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.”
“There's a thing when you're always working on something you really love, and this one we loved so much, it feels like you have a secret, and you can't wait to let people in on the secret. But at the same time, there's that moment where, "What if they get the secret and they think the secret is stupid?!"”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.”
“Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'”

Source : "Has Texting Killed Romance?" by Ashton Kutcher, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 8, 2010.
“The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born”

Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press
“I was involved in the anti-war movement.”

You may also like: