“What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 148 of 303
“Attention without feeling is only a report.”
“Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!”
“I love David's prayer, "Search me, God, and know my heart..." [Psalm 139:23]. I prayed that a lot. "God, search my heart and my life, reveal to me any areas of my life that you want me to see, any identities you want to show me, and help me dare to believe that your grace has erased them once and for all."”
“If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.”
“I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.”
“letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.”
“Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.”
“Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.”
“I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.”
“I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.”
“Few men are admired by their servants.”
“We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.”
“Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?”
“Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.”
“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”
“To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.”
“I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.”
“In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.”
“People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”