quotes about god and love

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions. ~Arthur Bloch



Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964



If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? ~Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If....?"



"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry



Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire



We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo



Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif



There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! ~Richard P. Feynman



We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. ~Robert C. Pollock



The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley



An environment where people have to think brings with it wisdom, and this wisdom brings with it kaizen continuous improvement. ~Teruyuki Minoura



Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson



We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac



Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle



After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy



This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams



The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher