Babadostoday Quotes & Sayings

Sue had been told that tumors had developed in her liver and lungs. She had been in a deep depression for a while, but she finally followed Barb's advice to call me after various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy - she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the type of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.
Some of her evangelical friends had insisted sorrowfully that her nieces wouldn't get into heaven, since they were Jews, as was one of her sisters. I told her what I believe to be true - that there was not one chance in a million that the nieces wouldn't go to heaven, and if I was wrong, who would even want to go? I promised that if there was any problem, she and I would refuse to go. We'd organize.
"What kind of shitty heaven would that be, anyway?" she asked. — Anne Lamott

strategic dementia is a loss of the ability to make rational business decisions because you are not sure of your strategy. — Christopher Surdak

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. — Steven Pressfield

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, then the lesson afterward. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre? — Alanis Morissette

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. — Mahatma Gandhi

As one Wharton dean explains, "The students call it Game Face: they feel pressured to look successful all the time. There can't be any chinks in their armor, and opening up would make them vulnerable. — Adam Grant

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King

To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John Ashcroft dispatching agents to interview the other 18 percent. — Jon Stewart

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? — Mary Wollstonecraft

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. — Mignon McLaughlin