Bolaines Quotes & Sayings

In truth, the Christian hope rests not ultimately upon our own diligence, but on God's faithfulness.30 It is God, not us, who will ultimately persevere, and that is why he is able to promise us eternal life: where the promise is, there is all this assistance. The faithfulness of the Father, the grace of the Son, and the power of the Spirit, all are engaged in our preservation. — John Owen

Perfection is different to every viewer. — Mary Robinette Kowal

I think the hardest words are 'I need help'. You need to be pretty brave to admit it. — Katie Kacvinsky

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch

Something about the house seemed vaguely Germanic, or perhaps it just looked like something that belonged in a fairy tale - the residence of a witch, or a more-than-usually genteel ogre. Pimm rapped on the door with the head of his cane. After a few moments, a dolorous voice on the other side said, "Well? — T. Aaron Payton

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. — Ned Rorem

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. — H.L. Mencken

It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things ... — L.M. Montgomery

In the cafe there was a lot of stylized cattiness, but this was never unkindly meant. Nothing at all was meant by it. It was a formal game of innuendos about other people being older than they said, about their teeth being false and their hair being a wig. Such conversation was thought to be smart and so very feminine. It was better, I need hardly say, to seem like a truly appalling woman than not like a woman at all. — Quentin Crisp

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours. — Mira Grant

When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11. — Penn Jillette

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of. — Guy Ritchie

I told them I would work to strengthen and secure Medicare for generations to come, and I told them I would fight for a new prescription drug benefit under Medicare. — Mike Rogers

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime. — Henry Lee Lucas