Brian Hackett Quotes & Sayings

It's actually the fourth,' I say, 'if you count getting fired from CopyMax.'
'Which we do not.' Jo slit-eyes me. She scoops up a handful of Fritos and tosses them into her mouth.
I try to keep a straight face, but it's hard when I add, 'Fired for copying your naked butt and gluing it on your boss's chair. — Julie Anne Peters

I am the punishment of God ... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. — Genghis Khan

That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else. — Sam Harris

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new. — Kevin DeYoung

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. — Abraham Lincoln

He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living ... it may be only a few seconds ... a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime ... — William S. Burroughs

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll realize how strong you truly are on your own. — Abraham Ruiz

Many men want wealth,
not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. — Henry Ward Beecher

All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I — Richard C. Morais

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right. — Bob Jones, Sr.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist. — Max Eastman