-
“The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.”
-
“To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.”
-
“...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.”
-
“Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.”
Source : Source: dutchsoccersite.org
-
“Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.”
-
“Everybody's damaged by something.”
Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.167, Pan Macmillan
-
“I feel like every time I go out I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.”
Source : "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 14, 2012. 
-
“Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.”
