Despoliation Despoiling Quotes & Sayings

What good is it for you to be able to discuss the Trinity with great profundity, if you lack humility, and thereby offend the Trinity? Verily, high sounding words do not make one holy and just. But a life of virtue does make one acceptable to God. Were you to memorize the entire Bible and all the sayings of the philosophers, what good would this be for you without the love of God and without grace? Vanity of vanities. All is vanity, except loving God and serving only God.49 — Justo L. Gonzalez

The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out. — Charlie Kaufman

I do love the idea of ritual. — Sarah Silverman

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. — Alicia Machado

each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or knives. Faith — Frances Hardinge

Beautiful people never lie. — Rick Riordan

One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer. — Robert Kennedy

The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York. — Daniel Humm

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now. — Paul Thomas Anderson

One looks in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed. — Eleanor Catton