Boorish Sort Quotes & Sayings

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. — William J.H. Boetcker

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space. — Kesh

To appear rich, we become poor. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required. — Winston S. Churchill

Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught. — Jeanette Winterson

Preaching that makes a church Christ-like under grace takes a double miracle: the sinful preacher must be shaped by grace to preach; and sinful listeners must be awakened by grace to listen together week by week in humble expectancy. Only God can do this. So praying before the sermon is not a formality. Unless God works, the whole thing will be a waste of time. — Christopher Ash

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it. — Owen Feltham

Do not censor yourself. Let go of that part of your brain and just be. — Red Phoenix

I never have sought the world;
the world was not to seek me. — Samuel Johnson

It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before. — Nick Nolte

all-too-human powers — No One

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope. — Lewis Black