“One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.”
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 125.
“One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.”
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990)
Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West
The Ballad of East and West (1889).
Other works
Context: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 101.
“One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
'The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Secret Garden
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.”
Bill Bryson (1951) American author
Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Richard Watson (1781–1833) British methodist theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 219.
“We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.”
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
Love One Another (audio cassette, 2002)