Avouchment Quotes & Sayings

Just believing, just having a molecule of faith
that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair. — Jeffrey R. Holland

And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my fellow people-that I must believe in myself-that I must believe in God-if life is to have any meaning. — Margaret Chase Smith

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is.
Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy? — P.D. James

Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying. — George Orwell

my knight in shining armour turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil. — Cheryl Lee

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! — Karl Lagerfeld

Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign.
De Cometis — Albertus Magnus

You can't tell me you're not cold in those shorts."
"Freezing," she admitted, handing Alex her messenger bag as she got to her feet. "But dammit, I look cute and we both know that's what counts."
"Naturally. — Jena Leigh

It is therapeutic to meet these people who have intimidated you. And to discover what they are really like. Then the intimidation goes. — Philip K. Dick

To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit. — Dada Bhagwan

There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant. — Joe Torre

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. — Benjamin Whorf

In what way will our remote posterity be able to cope with the enormous accumulation of historical records which a few centuries will bequeath to them? — Immanuel Kant

The sex is ever to a soldier kind. — Homer