Desecrating Quotes & Sayings

I tried to picture to myself the mosque before the Christians laid their desecrating hands upon it. — W. Somerset Maugham

It was not just that he had terrible style: he also gave the impression that he was deliberately desecrating the very idea of wearing clothes. — Haruki Murakami

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government. — Marianne Williamson

Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play
In accidental power
The blonde Assassin passes on
The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God. — Emily Dickinson

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans. — Will Rogers

I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about. — Quentin Tarantino

Life is lived out in self-contained compartments with nothing to connect them. Their bowing recognizes the sacred. Their expoiting grants the material. In living they desecrate others without a twinge of conscience. Yet if anyone were to hint at desecrating that shrine, his life sould be in peril. Such is the amputation of religion that pays homage to God but would be the most surprised if God were ever to show up. — Ravi Zacharias

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job. — J. Tillman

He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating her body. The order was as flexible as her corpse remained. — Thomm Quackenbush

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words. — Baron De Montesquieu

Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility. — Nathaniel Branden

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. — Stephen Covey

We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regret our imperfection, turning the glossy page, turning our glossy stomachs; we are nature as we hear them witter inanely on the radio, desecrating the silence with the violence of their idiocy and dumb verdicts, chattering and grooming, picking through the ticks in their hair, marveling at new minutia. — Russell Brand

Jerusalem's wall is real, but it's also symbolic," he said. "In a way, we destroyed the wall ourselves by relying on idols instead of on God. We destroyed it by desecrating His Sabbaths. By ignoring the laws He gave us, laws that teach us how to live. These ruins are a picture of what we did to our relationship with the Almighty One - we demolished it. Now it's time to rebuild what our sins have destroyed. — Lynn Austin

I am your Ted's song-legend, Crow of the death-chill, please. The God-eating, trash-licking, word-murdering, carcass-desecrating math-bomb motherfucker, and all that. — Max Porter

We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently. — Brian Falkner

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone — Larry David

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. — Charles Dickens

Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times. — April Mae Monterrosa

But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward. — Cecelia Ahern

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the way you make the silence bearable. — T.M. Frazier