Cassida 5520 Quotes & Sayings

Major export is people who are funny and smart, who have advanced degrees, who read on public transportation. — Jennifer DuBois

[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity. (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning) — Dallas Willard

There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day. — Tessa Gratton

People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can't hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we're different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don't notice. They don't believe we're even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don't know. — Lynn Blackmar

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them. — C.S. Lewis

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of. — Malcolm Gladwell

In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me, and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out. — Ariel Pink

The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. I read people. — James A. Newman

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business. — Bobby Schilling

The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new. — Lao-Tzu

In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can't get a real experience from the world. — Richard Tuttle

Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was going to do about it now. — Kimberly Gardner

A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt. — Brad Goreski

In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures. — John C. Calhoun

When you hide the bodies of the problems, that's how you eventually amass skeletons in your closet. — Faydra D. Fields