Attempteth Quotes & Sayings

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true. — Duane Hewitt

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. — Kurt Vonnegut

The most beautiful idea, perhaps, is that freedom and determinism can peacefully coexist: If our brains are causally determined in the right way, if they make us causally sensitive to moral considerations and rational arguments, then this very fact makes us free. Determinism and free will are compatible. — Thomas Metzinger

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't. — Mike Leigh

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. — John Quincy Adams

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working. — Margaret Thatcher

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. — Julia Glass

It's a good thing a DUI's job security. — CM Punk

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work. — Jeff Garlin

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors. — Robert Owen

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears! — William Faulkner

I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails."
"You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully.
"Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread."
"I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD."
"You do. And I love it. — Stephanie Perkins

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines brightest with her child in her arms, the father when he forgives his wandering son, and the artist when he or she is drawing attention to grace, by showing the pinprick of light overcoming the darkness in the painting, or the story, or the song. The world knows darkness. Christ came into the world to show us light. I have seen it, have been blinded by it, invaded by it. I will tell its story. — Andrew Peterson