"'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine."

-- Hugh Prather

#Failure Quotes #Mean Quotes #Faults Quotes

“Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us.”
“The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.”
“I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"”

Source : "Song: "I Wake Up and See the Face of the Devil" (Album: "lague Mass")". 1991.
“It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.”
“It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.”
“Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
“I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.”
“If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.”

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