Tyrique Robinson Quotes

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord ... I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. ~ Marilynne Robinson

The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim. ~ Philip Robinson

I knew it was love because it was easy to talk about a load of bollocks and laugh until we hurt. ~ Lucy Robinson

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. ~ Marilynne Robinson

Chloe Marie Richards, I never thought I would ever be one of those dumbasses who loves a woman so much they want to tie themself to her forever, but here I am, down on one knee trying to think of something sweet and romantic to say. As you can tell, I'm failing miserably, so will you please put me out of my misery and say yes if I ask you to marry me? ~ K.A. Robinson

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. ~ Robinson Jeffers

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions. ~ Ken Robinson

Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness. ~ Marilynne Robinson

Guillaume Belibaste, the last Cathar recorded to have burned at the stake in 1321, is said to have prophesied that "at the end of seven hundred years the laurel would again turn green,"114 implying that the principles of "the true Christianity" would return to the world's attention. ~ Marnia Robinson

She could see it surprised him, too, sometimes. He told her once when there was a storm a bird had flown into the house. He'd never seen one like it. The wind must have carried it in from some far-off place. He opened all the doors and windows, but it was so desperate to escape that for a while it couldn't find a way out. "It left a blessing in the house," he said. "The wildness of it. Bringing the wind inside. ~ Marilynne Robinson

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Everything owed is due again. ~ Linda Robinson

And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes! ~ Ann Robinson

It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must look to her for the materials for pictures, not for pictures themselves. It is nature filtered through the mind and fingers of the artist that produces art, and the quality of the pictures depends on the fineness of that filter. ~ Henry Peach Robinson

Without a word, we turn and walk away from the garden, new friends and the birthplace of the human race. As the darkness surrounds us once more, and Kat takes out her blue, green and yellow crystal, my thoughts turn to the story of Adam and Eve. Whether they were the first man and woman created by God himself, or the leaders of the first human tribe that evolved in the garden, I don't know, or care, but if they really did get the human race kicked out of Edinnu so long ago, I think they're a couple of jerks. ~ Jeremy Robinson

The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches. ~ Eden Robinson

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits. ~ Kent Alan Robinson

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing. ~ Marilynne Robinson

The way to create more joy in your life is by having an attitude of abundance. ~ Lynn A. Robinson

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. ~ Ken Robinson

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. ~ Joan Robinson

I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years. ~ Ann Robinson

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world. ~ Nick Robinson

There have been heroes here, and saints and martyrs and I want you to know that. Because that is the truth even if no one remembers it. To look at the lace, it's just a cluster of houses strung along a few roads, and a little row of brick buildings with stores in them, and a grain elevator and a water tower with Gilead written on its side, and the post office and the schools and the playing fields and the old train station, which is pretty well gone to weeds now. But what must Galilee have looks like? You can't tell so much from the appearance of a place. ~ Marilynne Robinson

Superheroes. Supervillains. It's all self-propagating kid stuff. A chance for grown men to put their underwear on outside of their tights ~ James Robinson

your eclipsed heart will wail for my stars until you realize you need my cosmic grace. chaos ~ K.Y. Robinson

The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day. ~ Jess C. Scott