"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that"

-- James Neil Hollingworth

#Courage Quotes #Judgement Quotes #Absence Quotes

“My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.241, Zondervan
“You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.”
“Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.”
“Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.”
“Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
“Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.”
“What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.”

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