492932s Quotes & Sayings

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details ... . — Jeff Bezos

Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to precisely the kinds of partners they were trying to avoid. All too often we marry stand-ins for our alchoholic fathers, shadowy replacements for our angry mothers, surrogates with whom we try to work out our unfinished childhood dramas. Or we fall in love with someone who incarnates the virtues or vices opposite our own. An orderly man who plans his days marries a spontaneous woman who lets things lie where they fall, lives in the moment, and is perpetually late for appointments. — Sam Keen

The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit. — Nick Harkaway

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line. — Malin Akerman

How hard you work matters more than how much you make. — Michelle Obama

Are you my girl?" He sounded breathless. His whole body vibrating with anticipation.
"How can I be your girl when you haven't even kissed me yet?" I asked boldly.
"I'm scared to kiss you," he whispered, his lips quivering, his green eyes full.
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"I want to be yours," I told him sincerely.
Yoss reached up and covered my hand with his. "I want to be yours," he echoed. — A Meredith Walters

I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good. — Julie Chen

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet. — Sherry Turkle

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. — John Darnielle

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that. — Natasha Trethewey

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. — Michel De Montaigne