The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. Robert Brault

Quotes November 23, 2008

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Prayer
Quotations by Robert Brault

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. Henry Fielding

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.Alcohol and AlcoholismQuotations by Henry Fielding

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.ReasonQuotations …

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.Judgment and JudgesQuotations by Lew …

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience — voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.SpaceQuotations by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.Thoughts and ThinkingQuotations by Blaise Pascal

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.PainQuotations by George Santayana

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.WickednessQuotations by Confucius

Author: Regina SpektorTheme: NatureWords: seen, ocean, forest, militant

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.KindnessQuotations by Blaise Pascal