Ed Roland Quotes
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.
Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth
I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.
This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion. "Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase. "Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much.
No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.
What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.
This is Simba, " Nicole said, pointing to the lion. "Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase."Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much.
Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.
...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.
Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.
In this manner, we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.
When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire
Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.
We are the choice elected fewLet all the rest be damnedThere is room enough in hell for youWe won’t have heaven crammed!
Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs).
The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.
The feeble tremble before opinion the foolish defy it the wise judge it the skillful direct it.
I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.
