Baggarly Quotes & Sayings

These wounds were going to scar where everyone could see them. Scarred was better than dead, so Neil figured he'd get over the stares eventually. Neil — Nora Sakavic

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die. — Marjane Satrapi

Using words like "casual" and "hang out," and the time constraint, were all part of a strategy to make the visit a low-pressure event. It's a much better way to get someone to commit to time with a stranger than AFC-style dinner dating, which can be a painful, drawn-out affair that involves two people who may have nothing in common stuck together for an entire night of awkward conversation. — Neil Strauss

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you? — Rajneesh

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves. — Donatella Versace

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks. — Tom Hodgkinson

It's bad when they don't treat you right ... but it's tragic that you continue to allow it. Let today be the day you love yourself enough to say, NEVER AGAIN! — Steve Maraboli

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person. — Vicki Lawrence

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Neukom, the Giants' buttoned-down owner, finally found Ross and vigorously rubbed his bald head while screaming jibberish nobody could understand — Andrew Baggarly

Former Journey lead singer Steve Perry was a lifelong Giants fan who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. When the Dodgers started showing him on the big screen during their nightly sing-along, Perry protested by sneaking out of his seats before the eighth inning began. Now the Giants were making their playoff run, and Perry had become a regular sight at AT&T park, thrashing around from a club-level suite as he spurred on the crowd. — Andrew Baggarly

The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God's big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin. — Brian D. McLaren

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'. — Yukio Mishima

We become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin. — John Owen