7890 Quotes & Sayings

The table was shocked. The entire class in fact. They'd heard tell of Civil War reenactments, but they were still occurring? The War Between the States was another time and another country. As was the South. Are barbers still surgeons? Is there still sharecropping? What about indoor plumbing? — T. Geronimo Johnson

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish. — KRS-One

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears. — Caio Terra

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. — Miriam Toews

To do something innovative means that you reject reason. — Jonathan Ive

Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch. — Fredrik Backman

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director. — Ted Kotcheff

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. — Ben Lerner

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. — Maurice Sendak

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays. — Ville Valo

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus — David Platt

Sweet serenity is found in fervent prayer. Then, we forget ourselves and remember the reaching hands of the Savior, who said, "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." As our burdens are shared with Him, they do become lighter. — Russell M. Nelson

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

From almost every standpoint ethyl alcohol must be regarded as the most important poison with which medical men and jurists have to deal," Gettler wrote in a paper, listing a seemingly endless record of fatalities. "No other poison causes so many deaths or leads to or intensifies so many diseases, both physical and mental, as does [this] alcohol in the many forms in which it is taken. — Deborah Blum

His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn