Agonizers Quotes & Sayings

The truth is that the world doesn't have much use or respect for "do nothing" people. Can you really blame them? — Bryant McGill

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy? — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well. — Yanni

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere. — Leonard Ravenhill

The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots. — Marina Warner

Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head. — P. J. O'Rourke

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene. — James Franco

Only humans, cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality and that of those whom they loved, were truly alone; each trapped in an ivory tower of skull and bone peeking out through the windows of the soul. THE — Nevada Barr

What one is ashamed to do one should be ashamed to say. — Suzanne Woods Fisher