Acknowledging Bad People Quotes & Sayings

Also, unless you critique moralism, many irreligious people won't know the difference between moralism and what you're offering. The way to get antinomians to move away from lawlessness is to distinguish the gospel from legalism. Why? Because modern and post-modern people have been rejecting Christianity for years thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism. Non-Christians will always automatically hear gospel presentations as appeals to become moral and religious, unless in your preaching you use the good news of grace to deconstruct legalism. Only if you show them there's a difference - that what they really rejected wasn't real Christianity at all - will they even begin to consider Christianity.2 — Tullian Tchividjian

Life to your spirit is not about making a living. — Penelope V. Yorke

I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it. — J. Tillman

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me? — Dale Carnegie

When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto. — Lauren DeStefano

Sometimes you stand under the hot gush for so long, looking at your body, counting every bruise. Touching every tender place. Watching the swirl at your feet, the glitter spinning. Like a mermaid shedding her scales.
You're really just trying to get your heart to slow down.
You think, This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.
After, you stand in front of the steaming mirror, the fuchsia streaks gone, the lashes unsparkled. And it's just you there, and you look like no one you've ever seen before. You don't look like anybody at all. — Megan Abbott

If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential — Fay Weldon

In future days you will call John Mandeville a liar, and my shade will laugh at you and say: true, true, I was, but not always, not so. When the world was good enough in my sight, when it behaved as wildly and gorgeously as I always knew it could, I told the truth of it. — Catherynne M Valente

the best people in life are free — Taylor Swift

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary. — Jaye Davidson

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis. — Anastasia Myskina

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me. — Kate Bush

The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you. — Zicheng Hong