Augusztus 27 Quotes & Sayings

Sin is in, and so we begin ... — Denis Leary

I moaned in frustration, trapped between desire and fear. "God, Roth." "In your life, at this time, those two words could be considered synonymous. — Jasinda Wilder

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show? — Sonny Rollins

Self-pity is a weakness. I don't blame them or anybody for not having a normal life. Life isn't easy for anyone. — Greg Aunapu

You take one last look and think it would have been something to climb that silo and peek out the window before the interstate plowed through. To see the land unbroken. You are compelled, of course, to consider how the Ojibwe felt, returning to the campsites at Cotter Creek one day only to hear the sound of sawing and the lowing of oxen. Life will circle around on you. Also visible from the silo window is a gigantic billboard pointed at the interstate and advertising a casino owned by the Ojibwe. The billboard says, WINNERS, 24/7. — Michael Perry

Nothing endures for so long as fear. Everywhere in nature one sees evidence of innate releasing mechanisms literally millions of years old, which have lain dormant through thousands of generations but retained their power undiminished. The field rat's inherited image of the hawk's silhouette is the classic example - even a paper silhouette drawn across a cage sends it rushing frantically for cover. And how else can you explain the universal but completely groundless loathing of the spider, only one species of which has ever been known to sting? Or hatred of snakes and reptiles? Simply because we all carry within us a submerged memory of the time when the giant spiders were lethal, and when the reptiles were the planet's dominant life form. — J.G. Ballard

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. — Elie Wiesel

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit! — Langston Hughes

Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons. — Sunday Adelaja

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like. — Lenora Crichlow

If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries. — Philippe Falardeau

My body - I do not fall to pieces and be reduced to a big pile of lovable mush over a woman, never! — A.R. Von

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words. — Robert Pattinson

Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show. — Russell M. Nelson