Paternot Stephan Quotes

I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie. ~ Stephan Labossiere

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn. ~ Stephan Pastis

On sunny days of summer,
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... ~ Stephan Attia

Stop saying "I'm waiting for my Boaz," change it to, "I'm preparing for my Boaz. ~ Stephan Labossiere

Implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto) ~ Stephan A. Hoeller

Be open, and trust that God knows what you need and when you need it, ~ Stephan Labossiere

And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies. ~ Nancy Stephan

Awesome ends with me; but Ugly starts with u ... ~ Stephan

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page. ~ Stephan Pastis

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want. ~ Stephan Pastis

God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 NLT ~ Stephan Labossiere

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club. ~ Stephan Jenkins

Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable. ~ Stephan Labossiere

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first. ~ Stephan Pastis

One should take good care never to treat one's own moral code as something universally valid ~ Stephan Lebert

But he who feels too much,
He soars in angels' tears of joy ... ~ Stephan Attia

You have to understand everyone has a different path to walk and therefore your preparation may be different from other people you know. Your preparation will include making sure you have healed from past hurts and embraced your true value and potential as a woman. Your preparation is a process and it's all about becoming and being the woman God has truly designed you to be. ~ Stephan Labossiere

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. ~ Jean Rhys

And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define. ~ Stephan Attia

Sometimes it's not that you "fell out of love" it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly "in love" to begin with. ~ Stephan Labossiere

We were born to serve humanity, not to slave for society ~ Stephan Attia

I do have a religion; it's just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature. ~ Stephan Attia

One of the towering figures of the age of Enlightenment was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, known to this day in German-speaking lands as the poet of princes and prince of poets. Unlike Voltaire, he openly practiced esoteric disciplines, particularly alchemy. He wrote a famous verse about the Cathars, which translated says: "There were those who knew the Father. What became of them? Oh, they took them and burned them!" Goethe's chief work, of course, is his Faust. As noted in chapter 8, the figure of Faust was inspired by the image of the early Gnostic teacher Simon Magus, one of whose honorific names was Faustus. While in Christopher Marlowe's sixteenth-century play, ~ Stephan A. Hoeller

The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy. ~ Stephan Attia

You make kingdoms and castles on your own. ~ Stephan Jenkins

The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride. ~ Stephan Attia

Perfect love, casts out all fear." 1 John 4:18 ~ Stephan Labossiere

If you're being the woman God wants you to be and a man still doesn't respect you, surely that isn't the man God has for you. Always hold to the standard of respect you deserve and a great man will easily recognize the caliber of woman you are and treat you accordingly. ~ Stephan Labossiere

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. ~ Stephan Pastis

Time never existed, time will never exist, for time is existing ~ Stephan Attia

The same walls you think you're using to protect yourself are the same walls blocking your blessings. ~ Stephan Labossiere

I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all. ~ Stephan Bonnar

I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing expression she has."
"I often wonder that myself," chimes in Malcolm Gledhill eagerly. "She seems to have such a look of serenity and happiness ... Obviously, from what you've said, she has a certain emotional connection with the painter Malory ... I often wonder if he was reading her poetry as he painted ... "
"What an idiot this man is," says Sadie scathingly in my ear. "It's obvious I what I'm thinking. I'm looking at Stephan and I'm thinking, I want to jump his bones."
"She wanted to jump his bones," I say to Malcolm Gledhill. Ed shoots me a disbelieving look, then bursts into laughter. ~ Sophie Kinsella

[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots. ~ Stephan Delbos

There is no amount of money, and there is neither gold nor silver, nor any treasure trove that can compensate a soul for the loss of love. ~ Stephan Attia

John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero. ~ Stephan James

I play video games, dude! ~ Stephan Jenkins

My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law and rights. Questions about what rights are "alienable" or not, loose talk about how promises should be "binding," etc., highlight the need for clarity in this area. In my view, to sort these issues out one needs a very clear and consistent understanding of the nature of property rights and ownership. ~ Stephan Kinsella

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. ~ Stephan Pastis

There is something very old and odd and quite unpleasant about this house."
"Yes, its Graham."
Stephan grinned and followed him into the long room. ~ K.J. Charles

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist. ~ Stephan Kinsella

How do you know your boss is a lesbian?
It's when she always park her bike in a dike ~ Stephan Attia

When people are to busy to survive they forget to live. ~ Stephan Attia

You have such a big responsibility. This person is still alive. You would think that they think highly of themselves and their accomplishments and what they've done. You can only hope to bring justice to that. ~ Stephan James

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms. ~ Stephan Jenkins

As much as we all know that some things are easier said than done, we have to understand that if we don't say it, we may never do it. ~ Stephan Labossiere

Gnostic teachings speak of the reality and power of evil and its fundamental presence throughout manifest existence. They declare that while we may not be able to rid the world or ourselves of evil, we may, and indeed will, rise above it through gnosis. ~ Stephan A. Hoeller

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner). ~ Stephan Kinsella