"The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger."

-- George Santayana

#Christian Quotes #Country Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.”
“If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.”
“Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.”
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.360, Thomas Wolfe
“There was a guy with mental illness in the middle of the street just yelling and hollering. I have a number that I can call - it's not 911 - to tell them, "You need to help this man get out of the street." But you have to be that person, you have to pick up the phone, you have to do it; you can't just walk by and act like they're not people. They're somebody's kid, somebody's dad, somebody's brother.”
“People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.”
“Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.”

Source : Simon R. Green (1997). “Deathstalker War”, p.231, Penguin

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