Ben Lerner Quotes
When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
Ben Lerner
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A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
Edmund Randolph
I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.
Sherri Shepherd
He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him
Cyril of Alexandria
Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.
Cynthia Lord
Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
Etgar Keret
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov
And now indeed this substance with its precious humility becomes, through its indestructibility, the most faithful bearer of man's message. As far back as one goes in time, the works of humanity from prehistoric times have reached us not through stone which crumbles and wears away, or through metal which oxidizes and becomes like powder, but through slabs of pottery, the writing on which is as clear today as it was under the stiletto of the scribe who traced it.
Bernard Leach
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
Elisabeth Elliot
Focus on fire attack, don't do unnecessary things.
Oda Nobunaga
When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
Ben Lerner
