Arbitrated Def Quotes & Sayings

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point. — Godfried Danneels

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision. — G.K. Chesterton

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order. — Andrew Carnegie

Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping
not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life. — Thomas Hardy

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget. — Ann Curry

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. — Lewis B. Smedes

Don't go wasting all them bright tomorrows you ain't even seen by hanging on to what happened yesterday. Let go, child. Just breathe out and let go. — Beth Hoffman

There are other women with baskets, some in red, some in the dull green of the Marthas, some in the striped dresses, red and blue and green and cheap and skimpy, that mark the women of the poorer men. Econowives, — Margaret Atwood

But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries - all Goliaths - too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages. — Malcolm Gladwell

Man was created by God to fulfill God's will — Sunday Adelaja

His sister. Oh, shit. I'd eaten my best friend's sister's pussy. And I liked it. I was going to hell. — Belle Aurora

I wanted it so much. I don't know why I wanted it so much. — Ernest Hemingway,