Cmta Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians. — Ezekiel Hopkins

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness — Malebo Sephodi

You see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have but a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again! ... who would have thought we should ever know what it is to be happy! Yet here we are all abroad once more! All at liberty! And may run, if we will, straight forward, from one end of the earth to the other, and back again without being stopped! May fly in the sea, or swim in the sky, or tumble over head and heels into the moon! For remember, my good friends, we have no lead in our consciences to keep us down! — Ann Radcliffe

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. — Wilson Mizner

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel. — Doris Lessing

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia. — Galt Niederhoffer

yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely? — Carol Goodman

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light. — John Hagee

Straight to the top, rooftop glows. With a hand full of girls and they all so foreign. Brain so poisoned, rainbows flowing. — The Weeknd

Excessive politeness fools your mind. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning ... — Gertrude Stein

She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women. — Kim Wright

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out all the years. — Rupert Brooke

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body. — Anne Michaels