Contemptuously Sentence Quotes & Sayings

There have been heroes here, and saints and martyrs and I want you to know that. Because that is the truth even if no one remembers it. To look at the lace, it's just a cluster of houses strung along a few roads, and a little row of brick buildings with stores in them, and a grain elevator and a water tower with Gilead written on its side, and the post office and the schools and the playing fields and the old train station, which is pretty well gone to weeds now. But what must Galilee have looks like? You can't tell so much from the appearance of a place. — Marilynne Robinson

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list. — John Eliot

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. — Lauren Oliver

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it. — Robert Charles Wilson

But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises. — Arthur W. Pink

The room was too much there. I could feel the color of the wallpaper
burgundy
invading. — Rivka Galchen

He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good. — Matshona Dhliwayo

P68- when a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world. — Paulo Freire

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada ... The rest just quits! — Paterson Ewen

I. Can't. Do this. I can't. It's too much. This-all of this-living- I can't. I just can't. To have given it all up and be left with nothing but this metal wall- — Beth Revis

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. — Corrie Ten Boom

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. — Malcolm De Chazal

There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is Don't do what you will, do what I say. — Terry Pratchett