Amateurism Defined Quotes & Sayings

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. — Christopher Hitchens

Let the miracles, even the ones we don't want or see, unfold. — Mark Nepo

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean De La Bruyere

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel

We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain ... and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress ... — Billie Jean King

Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you. — Ian Warner

No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity. — Alex Honnold

The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient. — Anthony Doerr

We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit, will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down. — Susan Sontag