Ascendants Quintile Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which conveys a message to a stranger. — G.C. Waldrep III

If we had not endured, we will never have succeeded. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to use the term for a much more specific phenomenon: a group of people who feel they belong together, whether they have a country of their own or not. — Robert Lane Greene

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation. — Jake Gyllenhaal

I wanted you to have your own life, apart from fear - even apart from me. I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering. — John Green

Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learned to cling more abjectly to life — John Gray, Doug Platt

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. — Edgar Magnin

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking. — Bertrand Piccard

You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God. — Kevin DeYoung