Francis Spufford
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES JEFFREY FRY RICHARD K. MORGAN EMINEM KHALED HOSSEINI ABERJHANI There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heaven... ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND There is an unspoken cruel and ill fate many of us are pre-destined the moment our breath enters thi... NATALIE C. HILL The sea enters into the rivers before the rivers can run into the sea. In like manner, God comes to ... PETER DRELINCOURT ANNE LAMOTT CHRIS MILK We have no idea and clearly that is something, that if anything was to happen, we would have to inve... GARTH SMART AYRTON SENNA Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right... NEIL PASRICHA We all need hope. As souls, we journey in physical bodies, traversing a life that is dually lived. W... SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON We want to produce as much as anybody else. It gives us a boost, no doubt about it. When we're hitti... ADAM EVERETT As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people ac... DAVID BLAINE CRAIG GROESCHEL Thus we are men and we know not how: there is something in us that can be without us, and will be af... THOMAS BROWNE, SR. EMMET FOX DEYTH BANGER RAINER MARIA RILKE JOSTEIN GAARDER NELLIE BLY PAULO COELHO TRACY K. SMITH If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit som... GEORGE BERKELEY CRAIG GROESCHEL C.S. LEWIS ISABEL ALLENDE Death makes us forget everything we love and loved ones at the most fearful moment of doubt on loosi... NISHI DE SILVA This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set ... E. C. HOSKYNS BORIS PASTERNAK It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that... WARREN W. WIERSBE GEORGE ALLEN as long as we think that there's something else that we can do that may lead us to the answer, we're... BOB FRANCIS The OFW factor is an important factor. It is something that we cannot ignore. It is benefiting us an... JAIME YSMAEL But there comes a moment when the mood burns out and everything ends. As a matter of reflex, out of ... RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKIS, SHAH OF SHAHS JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN ANNE RICE A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what... LAURENCE SHAMES The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS ANNE CARSON JAMES BALDWIN A library filters information which enters as fiction, disperses into reference, and then becomes fa... GLEN THOMAS PILLOW It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that w... BRIAN PERKINS JODI PICOULT Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beaut... LEONARD KOREN We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference... CHRIS MATAKAS They played a physical game against us with a lot of long balls. It is our responsibility to get the... FREDDIE LJUNGBERG ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can... BILL VIOLA There's two ways to trade: technical and fundamental. We prefer technical as it's based on how the b... DEREK CHING GEORGE ALLEN, SR. Awareness is the fundamental discipline that affects us in everything that we do. If we can perfect ... ANIL GUPTA I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion th... SCOTT TUROW ALAN WATTS PAT BUCHANAN CRAIG GROESCHEL DEYTH BANGER CRAIG GROESCHEL AARON COPLAND To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discover... EDWARD M. PURCELL The more one looks at this and studies these extraordinary objects, the more one begins to hear the ... DAVID REDDEN C. JOYBELL C. ANNE CARSON Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr... LAURENCE OVERMIRE No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solit... ANNA NEAGLE This is a bill that you (supervisors) are not comfortable with and we know that. We need to find som... CHARLES CHISOLM An individual who likes to be alone and relies himself more than anybody else in this world is quite... CHANDRABABU V.S. The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pil... PETER PORTER You can't go from couch potato to the Olympics. There's an incredible difference between us as avera... DEBBIE WILSON We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came ... JESSICA LAVE Safety is the No. 1 issue for us. That's something that's come to the forefront, something that the ... ELLIOTT SADLER I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a... HUGH ELLIOTT We're going to move the resources that we think can be helpful to the scene as rapidly as possible. ... BRYAN WHITMAN My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous and deserve to liv... ROBERT WHITE Our first consideration for writing or choosing songs is audience appeal and participation. It's imp... DUANE PROPES Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send... BARRY DILLER DEBASISH MRIDHA PASCAL MERCIER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AMOR TOWLES JUDITH BUTLER To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump int... RUPERT EVERETT There is an amazing beauty and strenght in diversity. Everyone has something special to offer, every... FARSHAD ASL In the world as it is, torn with agonies and dissensions, we need some direction for our souls which... CARYLL HOUSELANDER INGRID NEWKIRK It's what we talked about from the get-go, bringing the best and brightest to Paramount, both in fro... BRAD GREY You are already choosing, in every moment of every day, what to give a fuck about, so change is as s... MARK MANSON RAINER MARIA RILKE HARUKI MURAKAMI JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN MILAN KUNDERA HENRY CLOUD GEORGE SAUNDERS I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinar... LUIS ARAGONES Spiritual mentors or peers who are mature in their relationship with God and whose present walk with... CRAIG KEENER LLOYD ALEXANDER PICO IYER
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Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something ex... 
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform ... 
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that o... 
My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolv... 
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing someth... 
The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... 
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th... 
That's SHIT!
How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths abou... 
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extrao... 
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never endi... 
You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the... 
I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make fr... 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Eve... 
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet... 
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ... 
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the w... 
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people... 
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has nev... 
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest ri... 
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are... 
There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the ... 
There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... 
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the w... 
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. 
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. 
Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... 
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ... 
Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting our... 
Life is as precious to us as it is for an animal. An animal is as loving, caring, and kind to her ch... 
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays ... 
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him t... 
He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunti... 
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi... 
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good ... 
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trus... 
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. ... 
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records ever... 
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and... 
Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, end... 
How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain. 
We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fac... 
Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the sa... 
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tri... 
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we f... 
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. 
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ... 
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t... 
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. 
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr... 
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity... 
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w... 
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i... 
Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ... 
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. 
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body... 
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ... 
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. 
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is... 
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir... 
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i... 
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de... 
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving... 
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b... 
The essence of a man is found in his faults. 
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. 
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma... 
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. 
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ... 
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor... 
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. 
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. 
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. 